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Intuitive Editing With Tiffany Yates Martin

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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How Do I Print Out My Manuscripts?

The holy trinity of story is character, stakes and plot. Readers don't care what's happening until they care who it's happening to so if we do not have sufficient character development then readers won't feel invested. With plot, i always say, action is not plot, and plot is not story. Newer writers sometimes will have a whole bunch of exciting stuff going on, but that's just action. What makes it plot is that it is in service to something that the character wants their goal, what is at stake. The main reason that we are reading this story? Why do we keep turning the page? But there'll also be smaller questions, for example, about catn

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