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Episode 67 - Lighting the writing fuse, and showing rather than telling about the setting.

Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

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When Jim Thayer was 10 years old, he read a men's action magazine. He knew instinctively that his mom wouldn't like him reading it. The paper was pulpy and the red and blue and green ink looked as if it had come off on my hands. Who hasn't wanted to fight a 20-foot long snake?

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