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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 80 - Maybe we are writing magic, and strong versus weak words.
Description: Did soon-to-be famous writers know as they drafted their novels that they were creating magic for readers?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  And how can we choose the strong word instead the the weak, so that our sentence shines? Also, here are thoughts on how long our chapters should be, and how to make sure they are not too long and not too short.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 class—all 20 episodes—is available now f...