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Episode 25: The magic of writing. Cause and effect. And thinking.

Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

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The Importance of Interior Monologue in Fiction

A character's interior monologue is the least interesting. Much of it is navel gazing, which is where a character thinks about how she feels about things. Thinking cannot be acted out on a stage when a character is thinking nothing is going on for the reader to watch. Many writers are always advised to show rather than tell.

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