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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 228 - Avoiding dullness in our story.

26 min31 juli 2026

Every element in our story should contribute to entertaining the reader including our settings.  We can replace our dull settings with fascinating locations, and here's how to do it.  Also: what's wrong with this sentence?  Running along the street, the purse bounced against her leg.  It's a funny dangling modifier.  Funny if it doesn't appear in our story.  Here are thoughts on dangling modifiers, and how to avoid them.  Plus, the rule of exceptions.  

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