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#61: First Chapter Analysis: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban with Abigail Perry

Fiction Writing Made Easy

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How to Write a Good Chapter

I like to strip all that away and just say, let's write a scene with the structure we talked about. Even if you're at 3000 3500 on your first draft, it's okay. You can strip things out later once you know what's happening in your story... But yeah, I find you cannot think about chapters at the same time you're writing scenes. It's just too much. And even more speaks to how this first chapter and second chapter have an overlap in a ways because the Huxman is kind of what creates the goal for the next chapter. Right?

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