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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 132 - How to avoid the main reason readers stop reading a novel.

28 min • 27 september 2024

Why do readers put down a novel for good before they reach the last page? Here is a reason, maybe the main reason, and how we writers can avoid it. Also, examples of failed showing, as opposed to telling. And Margaret Atwood's rules of writing.

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