Don’t stop readers in their tracks: Four tips to maintain your story’s flow
One of the most important things we must not do to readers is bore them or stop the flow of the story. In my recent post, How not to write a story, I shared agent Margaret Bail’s tips and writing don’ts.
Here are several other points she and other agents, editors, and workshop presenters made during a panel discussion at the Las Vegas Writer’s Conference.
Character description. A common but ineffective way to describe your character is by having her look in a mirror or other reflective surface and describe what she sees.
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