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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 91 - The benefits of a buddy, and Willa Cather and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Description: Adding a close friend for our story's protagonist offers many benefits. Here are some thoughts on buddies. And: how did novelists Willa Cather and Nathaniel Hawthorne work? Plus, techniques for avoiding interior monologue when our character is alone in the scene. And: should we write the story that's loudest in our head or should we aim for the market?Support the showBuy the master class.