16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes

Published: July 11, 2021, 10 p.m.

Your Hosts:\xa0DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
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\nLet's have a frank, and possibly painful discussion about the ways in which the first page can go wrong. It may seem like hackneyed writing advice, but rules like "don't start with the main character waking up" are rules for a reason.\xa0 In this episode we'll talk about those reasons, and why it's so unlikely for books which break them to succeed with readers.
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