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    Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description

    Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Length:
    26 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 9, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    We'll talk about how to keep the reader involved in  the story, how to move a plot forward.  And we'll discuss one of my favorite topics: the novel's first sentence.
    Released:
    Mar 9, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer's novels are "superbly crafted') and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.