The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

Inciting Incidents and Key Events


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In today's Books with Hooks, Carly and CeCe each look at one submitted query letter, after which they each discuss a query letter that they ended up representing as an example of what grabs their attention. They discuss redacted titles; explaining POV in a query letter; putting the hook front and center; coincidences in the story; too much internal and not enough external in the first pages; dual POV in a query letter; tension leaks and starting with proper interiority and not narration.

After which, Bianca chats with Felicity George, author of A Lady's Risk , about regency romance and what the genre is; how she tackles getting the language of that era correct; her novel’s inciting incident and the key event; Felicity's reasoning for her POV choice; and her road to publication.

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Twitter: @TSNOTYAW @BiancaM_author @carlywatters @ceciliaclyra
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Websites: www.theshitaboutwriting, www.biancamarais.com and www.carlywatters.com 
Felicity can be found at www.felicitygeorgeauthor.wordpress.com, on Instagram at @FelicityGeorge_romance and Twitter at @elizabethwelke



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The Shit No One Tells You About WritingBy Bianca Marais, Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra

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