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Kathleen Marple Kalb's avatar

Terrific advice! Even if you've made it into print, you can still make these mistakes. Not all that long ago, I killed the wrong person in my mystery and had to rewrite 2/3 of it. If I'd taken the time to make a synopsis, as I usually do as a plotting tool, I'd have caught it. But no, I was doing one of those "write for a month" things and just kept going. I'll never go without a synopsis again!

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Julie Murdock's avatar

Great list. I hear #5 and #6 over and over again when watching webinars or reading interviews with editors and agents.

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