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Gareth Hanrahan

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But that doesn't mean you were wrong. It just means that a novel's too big and messy to be solved by a single stroke. For a 500-page fantasy novel, there are going to be a dozen moments where I feel completely stuck or wrong, then work it out, then get stuck again.

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3. Earning moments of insight require both raw material and distance. This one is based on what's probably a wholly extraneous intro chapter, but writing that intro chapter gave me the perspective needed to see a throughline that unites pretty much all the major characters.

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