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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 242 - Avoiding six big mistakes in our story.

27 min•6 november 2026

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We are writing or editing our story.  It's good.  We like it.  But have we made prospect-killing mistakes early in our story, big errors in the story that work against its success?  Here's a discussion of six mistakes we might make in the first few chapters and how to fix them.  Also: lovely sentences have rhythm.  How can we learn prose rhythm?

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