This Award-Winning Bestseller Could Have Been Better If It Didn’t Use the Progressive Verb Tense

Writers can learn a lot from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, an absolutely fascinating book that I cannot finish

Sean Myers
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readOct 20, 2023

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Largely because I’m a hermit, I was only recently introduced to Neal Stephenson, who has been writing…

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