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4. A related tip...
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 03:36 PM
Jun 2021

Don’t start the story or a chapter with a character’s name, a]or at least be very sparing in doing so. Arthur C Clarke was absolutely terrible about this, and I believe Asimov was likewise. Regardless of their vast knowledge and enormous bodies of work, this remains a lazy trick that simply sucked the life from the page.

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