Episode 226 - Ways to make our sentences shine.

Episode 226 - Ways to make our sentences shine.

July 17, 2026 · 27 min

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This episode discusses techniques to enhance sentence quality in novel writing and explores different approaches to writing chapters.

Novels that endure not only have bold plots but are also beautifully written. Here are techniques on how to make our sentences shine. Also: should we write our first chapter first and our last chapter last (as does John Grisham) or should we write the chapters and scenes out of order (as did Margaret Mitchell)? Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more. E...

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