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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 75 - The magical difference between scene and summary.
Description: New writers tend to put too much summary into their stories. I'll talk about how to avoid that mistake, making sure that most of our novels are scenes.  Why is this so important?  Scenes are much more engaging for the reader than are summaries.  Also, here's how to show--rather than tell--about our characters' aches and pains.  And here's a list of the twelve best novels of all time.Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more.  Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes.  The full cl...