274. 3 Mistakes I See In Almost Every First Draft
About this episode
Nanci Panuccio discusses three common mistakes found in first drafts that can hinder storytelling.
If your first draft feels like it's wandering — like you're generating pages but not quite writing a story — this episode is for you. After coaching and editing hundreds of first-time novelists and memoir writers, I keep seeing the same three mistakes show up in draft after draft. Not because these writers aren't talented. But because first drafts are hard, and most of us don't know what we don't know until someone points it out. The frustrating thing about these mistakes? They're invisible f...
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