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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 190 - The right way to leave red herrings.

28 min7 november 2025

Red herrings--false clues--are used in most all stories in all genres.  Here are the right and wrong ways to insert red herrings into our stories.  Also, here's how we can show--reveal--much about a character by describing a setting.  

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