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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing: Plugging in Mental Modules

In this Apr 13 episode, Bianca Marais, CeCe Lyra, and Carly Watters workshop query submissions and call out recurring problems: too many side threads, fuzzy stakes, and bios that crowd out the actual pitch. Their guidance stays practical and submission-focused, especially around clarity of protagonist motivation and narrative drive.

For working writers, this is useful because it translates agent-side reaction into concrete revision moves before querying. It's less theory and more triage: what to cut, what to foreground, and how to make a query read like a confident market-ready package.

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing