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How To Write A Novel
When Was Your Tale
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Your story's tense isn't just a grammar choice - it's a contract with your reader. Past tense says the narrator survived. The present tense says anything can happen. Which one are you signing?
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How To Write A Novel
Who is Telling Your Tale? A Guide to Narrative Perspectives
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Whether consciously or unconsciously, there is one question you have to answer within the first few sentences of your story: Who is telling this tale? For most writers, the choice...
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