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Tim Lott, author of 'Yes! No! But Wait! - The One Thing You Need to Know to Write a Novel' - Award-winner discusses why spaces don't matter, why plot is everything and dealing with guilt
Writer's Routine
The Science of Storytelling
I was flabbergasted at the insights Robert McKee gave me about storytelling because there's novalless you don't hear this stuff. Drama writers where lips with a scream or a stage understand story much better than novelists do as far as I can make out. And so once I understood that stories were really about this one thing which is like a DNA strand too into into into linked as it were strands that the double helix I call it. Once you get to the heart of those things you really learn all that you can learn about writing a novel. Now it's not to say there isn't a lot more to writing a novel there is but there's only so much
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