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Balancing Outer and Inner Story in Your Book

Balancing Outer and Inner Story in Your Book

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Mary Carroll Moore
May 21, 2011
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Outer story is the foundation for all good books. Outer story grounds the reader in your material, whether you are writing about people, politics, or potatoes. It creates structure, a logical sequence of information or events, a believable time and place. It lets the story track for a reader like a
train smoothly traveling from one city to another.

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