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Matthew Dicks Says Nobody is Listening to You Unless You Do This

One Percent Better

CHAPTER

How to Write a Good Story

Location and action start with those two things. You can try to build some wonder in the first few sentences which is to say get people to want to like know more about what you're saying. Ad adjectives are the worst in storytelling it's all verbs and good hard nouns I love goodhard nouns. If your child says something that doesn't do anything but gets taught all the time by their teacher then write it down. Don't give everything away right off the bat, just a little bit of description as opposed to describing her personality through description because she has green eyes and blonde  as opposed to being tony or having an earring in her nose at least that would be

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