Treating oversimplified writing advice like "rules" you have to follow is actually damaging to writing. Your own, and the people who you pass those "rules" on to.
Related--stop oversimplifying writing advice!!! Just stop! There are no rules, only techniques that do or don't serve your project.
Related--stop oversimplifying writing advice!!! Just stop! There are no rules, only techniques that do or don't serve your project.
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Hal Duncan
So you give your novel to me, and I tell you this, and you tell me (I've lost count of how often this happens), actually you DID have a scene in the landing boat where the protag is introduced, but he's just worrying about his wife & kid there, it's boring, so you cut that to get to "the action".
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1) Good ideas that apply in 90% of cases, but you should understand why so you know when you can break them.
2) Out-of-date advice about the market that an author said on a podcast in 2012.
3) The bugbear of some professor that gets repeated as the word of God