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The first draft is generally bad because your brain fills in the gaps that are left by the words you have written. You don't see what's missing because your brain, which already knows all the stuff you left out, fills it in.

This is why telling instead of showing is much more satisfactory to the person doing the writing and so much more unsatisfactory for everyone else.

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: Is it more effective to lead with a physical conflict rather than an emotional one? I currently have the choice of two routes with my novel - to lead with a knives-and-poisons main conflict,

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