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Episode 132 - How to avoid the main reason readers stop reading a novel.

Sep 27, 202429 min
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Why do readers put down a novel for good before they reach the last page?  Here is a reason, maybe the main reason, and how we writers can avoid it.  Also, examples of failed showing, as opposed to telling.  And Margaret Atwood's rules of writing.

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