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Episode 92 - Fourteen scene mistakes and how to avoid them.

Episode 92 - Fourteen scene mistakes and how to avoid them.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 92 - Fourteen scene mistakes and how to avoid them.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Here is a list of the fourteen biggest mistakes we can make when creating our scene, and how to avoid them.  Also, we'll talk about how to avoid the dull tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock metronome beat when writing sentences.  And: showing rather than telling about a character's personality.Support the show
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
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.