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    Episode 24 - Showing others our work. And strong sentence-by-sentence writing techniques.

    Episode 24 - Showing others our work. And strong sentence-by-sentence writing techniques.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Episode 24 - Showing others our work. And strong sentence-by-sentence writing techniques.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    24 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 5, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Should we show friends and family our manuscripts as we compose them?  Good reasons for and against exist.  The key to vivid writing: be specific, definite, and concrete.  Plus, famous romantic lines, avoiding useless analogies, and a technique for vivid writing: using verbs rather than verb objects.
    Released:
    Aug 5, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    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.