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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Henriette Lazaridis on Terra Nova
Description: First pages are impossible… so we’re hearing from authors about how they got them right. In this episode, Henriette Lazaridis discusses the first pages of her second novel, Terra Nova, and how she discovered a new writing practice out of a heavy dose of writer’s block. We also talk about challenging the usual historical novel voice, putting yourself in the body of your characters to stir suspense and a sense of place, planting the seeds of conflict, and delaying the need for exposition by concentrating instead on rich sensory detail. Lazaridis’ first pages can be fo...