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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 174 - How to ruin our story's first sentences.

26 min • 18 juli 2025

A story's first sentence should make the reader ask, "What's next?" They should propel the reader into the story. Here's how to do it right and how to do it wrongly. Also, three master writers show us how to describe a setting.

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