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Daughters of Lace

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Jun 30, 2024
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Besides conflict, a sense of mystery is important in a novel to pull the reader through the narrative. This can be done as an overarching driving question which the reader wants to discover through finishing the book, or it can be done by a series of smaller waypoints where mystery upon mystery builds…

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