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    Keeping the faith

    Mar 04, 2021 5 minutes

    The March issue of Writing Magazine discussed getting going on your novel, and suggested ways in which to make the best possible start.

    Now, as you fight your way through the jungle of your first draft (or that’s what writing a first draft always feels like to me: akin to hacking and slashing my way through a practically-impenetrable rain forest), you’ll need to keep the faith with your story and with your characters, too. After all, you led them into the jungle, and they’ll be depending on you to get them safely home again, wherever home – literal or metaphorical – might be.

    These characters shouldn’t be depending on you to do all the work and, as your story develops, so must your characters. So, while you were casting the

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