May 11, 2018 • 40M

106: #FirstTimerMistakes

 
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Entertaining, actionable advice on craft, productivity and creativity for writers and journalists in all genres, with hosts Jessica Lahey, KJ Dell'Antonia and Sarina Bowen.
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Can you name the three most common pitfalls made by new novelists—and memoirists? Jennie Nash can, and she shares her ideas for how to fix them. This is learnable, she says. It's a skill you can and must build to write something that captures the reader and sweeps them up, no matter what kind of story you want to tell.