Common First Author Mistakes - What are they, and are there SF speficic ones? - rec.arts.sf.written

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Jacey Bedford

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From: Jacey Bedford <lookin...@nospam.invalid>

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:27:58 +0100

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

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In message <486E697D.FD1B4...@tx.rr.com>, Konrad Gaertner
<kgaert...@tx.rr.com> writes

>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.

Shifting viewpoints, not quite omni, not quite multiple tight third.

Jacey
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