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What is it that makes an idea great?

What is it that makes an idea great?

Where do ideas for novels come from? What is it that makes an idea great? Whatever an author decides to write must be rich enough and thrilling enough to compel their reader through 300-plus pages, to trap them wholeheartedly inside a story, leaving them unable and unwilling to climb out. It must be rich enough […]

November 23, 2015 | By Lucy Cruickshanks | 2 Replies More

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