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Importance of Action: Do You Have Enough Happening?

Importance of Action: Do You Have Enough Happening?

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Mary Carroll Moore
Aug 22, 2014
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All week, struggling to revise an early chapter in my novel-in-progress, I realized what was wrong:  nothing happens.  It's what I call a "traveling chapter."  After a plane crash, the character tries to get to a main road.  She walks through a forest at night.  She discovers she's lost an important item from her pack.  She can't go back, she panics, sh…

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