WRITING & PUBLISHING
Culture Shock Can Wake Up Your Fiction
Harness the power of a fresh perspective
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7 min readJul 17, 2021
Back in high school I had a world studies teacher who assigned a writing lesson that I’ve since come to treasure. She told us to describe America as if we were Martians arriving here for the very first time. That could mean, for example, writing about a coffee maker as if…