First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Fire Touched
This week’s first page falls under the genres of urban fantasy, action-adventure, and romance. Author Patricia Briggs has many fantasy…
Understanding Premise and the One-Sentence Story Concept
Over the last few weeks we’ve been taking a look at key moments in your novel’s structure. This week, before…
How Writers Can Develop Emotional Connections between Reader and Hero
Today’s guest post is by Patrick Cole: When I first met Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities, I…
5 Tips to Keep You from Being Overwhelmed
For Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive. Today’s post is from 5 Writer Goals to…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Selection
Each week, we’ve been taking a look at the first page of best-selling novels of various genres and seeing how…
How Writers Can Bring Setting to Life through Personification
Today’s post is by Becca Puglisi. Settings can be tricky for authors. In our desire to firmly ground readers in…
The Key to Creating Believable Plots and Subplots
On Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with our exploration on…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Support and Defend
I promised you last week that I’d give you a much better, stronger first page, and so I jumped at…
A Look at the Second Pinch Point in Stories
Last week we took a look at the first pinch point—that moment in your story that comes after the hero’s…