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Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
Episode: Episode 121 - The biggest mistakes new writers make.
Description: Sometimes new writers have a strong plot idea and they begin writing without learning much about fiction writing. Here are the ten most common mistakes new writers make, mistakes that are often prospect killers.  Also, how does Kristen Hannah work? And: maybe the best way to learn how to write a novel.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 for a one-time price of forty-nine dollars.  If you want struc...