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#PublishingReinvented 27 - Avoiding The Trap of Being Predictable & Outhinking the Competition

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Dec 07, 2020
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Predictability kills reader interest. Readers also love the familiar.

They want the comfort of a happy ending, a new way of looking at the world or a murder solved, but they also want you to deliver it in a different way to what they read last week.

They want the same, but different. A gripping beginning, a fast-moving middle and a great, jaw-dropping en…

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