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The First Chapter
Point of View
Viewing Scenes as Mini Stories
Motivation Reaction Units
Active vs. Passive
Goals, Motivation, and Conflict
Showing vs. Telling
Book Titles
Prologues and Epilogues
Foreshadowing, Flash-forward, and Red Herrings
Flash-backs or Backstory
Resist the Urge to Explain
Information Dumps
Cut the Flab, and Abolish Redundancy
Interior Monologue and Direct Thoughts
Matching Dialogue to Characters
Metaphors and Similes
Consistency, Mirror Effect, Logic
Purple Prose and Stilted Writing
Endings
