The Enemy Within – 8 Tips to Crafting Powerful Inner Conflict
Good fiction is packed full of conflict. While most writers focus on the tension and excitement that plays out in…
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Checklists to Help You “Inspect” Your Story Structure
Are you a “list” person? I sure am. Even though I have software programs like Sticky Notes to help me…
Masterful Verbs and Adjectives Part 2
Last week we looked at some of the creative usages of nouns, verbs, and adjectives by my favorite author Patricia…
The Essential Ingredient in Your Novel’s Concept
I want to talk about concept a bit today. I believe a lot of novels fail at the concept stage….
How You Can Avoid Making Structural Mistakes in Your Novel
I’ve spent more than three decades writing novels. And at first I had no clue what I was doing. Like…
A Novel Is Not A Sum Total of Its Parts
This is our last post wrapping up the year’s course on The 12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction. I hope…
Building Your Novel with a Holistic Approach
We’ve spent a whole year looking at the twelve pillars of novel construction, and I hope you’ve gained a lot…
Layering Motifs in Your Novel for Powerful Effect
When our beach house fell off a cliff due to El Nino years ago, we felt a horrible sense of…
How to Come Up with Motifs in Your Novel
Motifs are powerful elements that writers can take advantage of when constructing their novels. But few novelists ever give thought…
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