Episode 183 - A key to making our sentences forceful.

from Essential Guide to Writing a Novel · host James Thayer

What do Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, and Elmore Leonard have in common? Powerful stories, yes. But also lean and forceful sentences. Here's how they do it. Also: in our plotting,what's an acceptable coincidence and what's a weak, story-ruining coincidence?Support the showBuy the master class.

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