Episode 181 - A critical difference between scene and summary.

from Essential Guide to Writing a Novel · host James Thayer

Why should almost all of our story be scenes rather than summaries? Here's how we can avoid summaries and instead write moment-by-moment real-time scenes in our fiction. Also: here are perhaps the most beautiful sentences ever written in fiction.Support the showBuy the master class.

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