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"Hook the reader immediately." Great advice. Completely useless in practice. In this video, we break down six specific techniques for opening a novel — what each one does, why it works, where it can go wrong, and examples of books that pull it off. From starting close to the inciting incident (and why prologues are usually a bad idea) to ...
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