Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode 209 - Avoiding blunders in our story.
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How and why should we avoid our character traveling? And how does Orson Scott Card not make blunders in his novels? Here is his tool for having a mistake-free novel. Also: here is why our scenes--almost all scenes--should have some action, and how to write that action.
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