Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 228 - Avoiding dullness in our story.

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Every element in our story should contribute to entertaining the reader including our settings.  We can replace our dull settings with fascinating locations, and here's how to do it.  Also: what's wrong with this sentence?  Running along the street, the purse bounced against her leg.  It's a funny dangling modifier.  Funny if it doesn't appear in our story.  Here are thoughts on dangling modifiers, and how to avoid them.  Plus, the rule of exceptions.  

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