Continuing with the fiction ailments/fixes idea, I’m always surprised at how many possible pitfalls a novelist can get stuck in. Writing Tip for Today: If you’re drafting your first novel, maybe you’re surprised too. So many things can go wrong. The novels you’ve read didn’t seem this complicated. Ah, but there’s the rub. Good novels […]
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Fiction Fixes for Fiction Ailments
Before I start in on fixes, let me remind everyone that there are only two kinds of writing: Writing that works and writing that needs work. This means if you can write any of the identified “ailments” and make the reader still care, make him stay up all night reading, make her love your story, […]