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Getting Notes – Ten Things to Consider
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I got an email this morning from one of my students who just received a pile of notes on her...
Redundancy is not only a sign of lazy writing; it can also pull us out of the story by interrupting...
Sometimes we’ve written characters that don’t belong in our story because their function is redundant. Conflict might arise that don’t...
Just because you might be a first-time novelist, it doesn’t mean you’re not the authority over your work. No agent,...
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