My guess is that few novel writers spend time thinking about scene choice or type and the placement of specific types of scenes in a novel. Yet, it’s the key to solid story structure. What do I mea…
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At the end of every year, I blog about planning. The new year is looming on the horizon, and to many it feels like the chance at a fresh start. We can say good riddance to 2020—for so many reasons,…
| 2y 9m ago
Deep POV is all about readers experiencing sensory details through a character. Writers know they need sensory details in their books. But here’s what a lot of writers do. They have a scene start o…
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Writers hear a lot about point of view and, in particularly, deep POV. What is deep POV? It’s being inside one character’s head, and, in fiction, there are some current “rulesR…
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A lot of writers sit down to write a scene with a general idea of what they want to have happen (action) in the story. But to create a perfect scene, you need to consider a whole lot more than that…
| 2y 10m ago
Last week I started diving into the three-act structure and explained that such structure is random and arbitrary. While many writing instructors swear by this structure, I feel it’s too pat and re…
| 2y 11m ago
Most fiction writers are clear about the inciting incident or initial disturbance that has to come near the start of their novel. Yet, I see way too many novels in which there really isn’t a strong…
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All month, nearly one hundred writers have been writing short pieces–prose, poetry, journal entries–that reflect their thoughts and feelings in this time in history. It is my belief tha…
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