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Easy Ways to Think About Plot: The Driving Question of Your Novel

Lesson 4 of "How to Finally Get Started on that Novel"

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Amy Shearn
Nov 27, 2024
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Lesson 4 of 8 from “How to Finally Get Started on that Novel”

Oh god, the novel needs a plot, too? Look, the horrors persist, but so do you. 

Once on a date (that part isn’t really relevant I suppose except that I did honestly think it was a very good first date question) someone asked me if I had been drawn to writing because of story…

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Author of 5 novels, including Animal Instinct (Putnam, 2025) & Dear Edna Sloane (Red Hen Press, 2024). Essays in New York Times Modern Love, Oprah Daily, & elsewhere. Teaches writing & works 1:1 with writers.
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