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

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From: Mark_Reich...@hotmail.com

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:04:00 -0700 (PDT)

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

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On Jul 4, 1:18 pm, Konrad Gaertner <kgaert...@tx.rr.com> wrote:

> 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

So Baen authors other than Bujold have written a lot of first novels.

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