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Story Nerd — 38 episodes
Writing a Powerful Memoir
Miss Peregrine: caution plot holes ahead
Your Opening Pages MUST do this
Close Encounters: fixing saggy middles
The Trick to Holding a Reader's Attention is...
Sex and the City (archive)
Prologues...Yes or No?
Bridget Jones's Diary (archive)
The AI Witch-Hunt (Part 2)
The AI Witch-Hunt (Part 1)
Using Flashbacks and Flashforwards
The Good Liar (archive)
Querying Too Soon?
The Courier (archive)
Worldbuilding in the Opening Pages
Vertigo: does it live up to the hype?
Knowing When to Query (this is a BIG deal)
What Went Wrong: jason bourne
How do agents see genre?
Best Advice: protagonist types and premises
Spielberg listens to Story Nerd
Serenity: object of desire MIA
What Agents Wish Authors Knew BEFORE They Query
Choosing Comp Titles (it’s an art!)
Birds of Prey: writing unlikeable characters
Ronin: what is an antihero?
Identifying Genre is Trickier than You Think!
Hidden Figures: your reader’s expectations?
Notting Hill: why we love it
Is this a mystery?
Mrs.Harris Goes to Paris: toothless antagonists
Sicario: not what we expected
Killer Opening Lines
Murder She Said: sex or murder?
What Went Right: anora
The best time to send a query
What Went Wrong: 80 for Brady
Best Advice: heroes and villains