Why we will never write your novel
One rule we don't bend, what it rules out, what it leaves in, and why we think the craft is the point.
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Related glossary terms
- Narrative voiceThe distinctive personality of the narration, created by word choice, rhythm, attitude and what the narrator notices.
- Story bibleA reference collection recording the established facts of a novel, such as characters, places, objects, rules and timeline, so they stay consistent from chapter to chapter.
- Continuity errorAn inconsistency within a story, where a detail established in one passage contradicts the same detail somewhere else.
- RevisionThe process of re-seeing and reworking a draft, from structure, scene order and character arcs down to the sentences themselves.