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In this episode, Taylor follows up on the importance of cause and effect with two examples of scenes that violate the Law of Cause and Effect.

As a review, Taylor defines the Law of Cause and Effect as:

Characters only act or react (the effect) in direct response to something that’s happened (the cause). Or, to put it another way, there is always a reason for everything a character does and says.

We also get another segment of Stories from the Farm, where we hear Taylor tell a “coming of age” story for two of her young chickens.

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In this episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of cause and effect and delivers a useful rule for building scenes.

If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page.

Please consider supporting Taylor on Patreon for Patreon only teaching and information.

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In this episode, we once again tackle chapter and scene openings, this time with an example that’s missing some of the critical elements we’ve discussed over the past few episodes.

If you’re going to do our first-ever creative writing assignment, please email her at contact at taylorstevensbooks dot com.

If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page.

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In this episode, Taylor expands on the ideas she shared in episode 213 and explains how we can be sure our description serves the correct purpose in scenes.

Taylor mentioned the following episodes at the beginning of the episode:

• 206 – Avoiding The Two Extremes when it Comes to Writing Description
• 211 – Avoiding Character Aimlessness to Improve Pacing and Characterization
• 213 – Every Scene Needs a Purpose: Description
• 225 – How Going Deeper Than The Obvious Makes Characters Feel Real and Alive
• 235 – Using Inner Dialog to Guide Conversation

Thanks so much for joining us again this week!

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In this episode, Taylor shares the reasons why she recently read Julia Heaberlin’s upcoming book We Are All the Same in the Dark, and what kept her reading the book for eight straight hours.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week!

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In this week’s episode, Taylor and Steve discuss the idea that we don’t all “hear” the same things in our minds. Some have thoughts that form as words and sentences, while others have thoughts as concepts, or what Taylor refers to as bolts of lightning.

Thanks so much for joining us again this week!

If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our contact information on the Connect page.

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