#240. 10 Writing Mistakes That Make Readers Put Down Your Novel
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In this episode, Savannah Gilbo discusses 10 common writing mistakes that can lead readers to abandon a novel and emphasizes the importance of addressing story-level issues rather than just sentence-level problems.
Are you revising the same chapters over and over, but nothing you change is actually fixing the problem? Most writers go straight to the prose when their story isn't working. They tighten sentences, swap out words, and reread the same chapter over and over. And still, something feels off. But most first-draft problems don't occur at the sentence level. They occur at the story level. In this episode, I share the 10 writing mistakes I see most often in manuscripts. Plus, I’ll give you the diagn...
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