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Konrad Gaertner

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From: Konrad Gaertner <kgaert...@tx.rr.com>

Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:18:37 -0500

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Subject: Re: Common First Author Mistakes - What are they, and are there SF speficic ones?

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phdu...@gmail.com wrote:

> And I was wondering, what are these problems? The only one I can
> think of is the 'kitchen sink' problem, where every cool idea the
> author's ever had shows up in one book, but I'm sure there's more.
> Are there any sfnal specific first novel problems?

Telling instead of showing, railroad plots, idiot plots, sloppy
scene changes, inconsistant internal chronology.

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