What Makes a Compelling Story?

The beating heart of powerful, captivating fiction discovered

Austin Hackney
The Writing Cooperative
8 min readSep 9, 2021

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Bad writing sells

With my market research hat on, I was trawling through book samples, reading the first chapter or two of top-selling genre fiction on sale at the major online retailers. I wanted to discover what these books have in common that makes them sell. I wanted…

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