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Authors use these to hook readers and stretch their stories. Here’s how these bookend scenes can level up your narrative.

From Mom to her mom to my aunt, Chicago style sets the rules that keep family titles consistent and the writing drama-free.

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Let’s clear up the confusion around writing numbers, dates, years, and times in your fiction novel with these industry-standard rules and formatting tips for clean manuscripts.