354. Alternative ARTICLE: Be careful not to slow your story down with too much clumsy exposition, writes Louise Doughty

Novel in a year

Be careful not to slow your story down with too much clumsy exposition, writes Louise Doughty

Are you panicking, feeling that you haven’t written as much as you should have and that it’s all a big mess that will never coalesce into a novel? I can empathise. When I began this column, a year seemed like plenty of time to discuss the many different aspects of writing, but here we are, autumn upon us. There’ll be tinsel in John Lewis any minute now. Read more…

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