Why Writing A Novel Is Damn Important

There’s a reason why we’ve told stories since the beginning…

Jake Lyda
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readFeb 22, 2018

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Stop Me If This Merry-Go-Round Sounds Familiar…

You decide today is the day to start a novel. Characters, story, plot, setting, theme, sentences — you’ve got it all figured out. You bust out the first few thousand words, letting it flow…

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