Is Your Novel Staying on the Tracks or Derailing?
What do I mean? If you’re like many fiction writers, you often have no clue if you are on the…
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How to Wow Your Readers with Your Novel
The last couple of weeks, I’ve been talking about the importance of mastering how to “show” effectively in your writing….
The Innovative, Intuitive Way to Organize Your Novel’s Scenes
If you write novels, you know how hard it is to do. You have to pull all your ideas, your…
Why You Should Shoot Your Novel
There’s a whole lot more to “showing” than you think! Sol Stein in his book Stein on Writing says, “Twentieth-century…
5 Ways to Create Strong Internal Conflict
Today’s guest post is by author Janice Hardy. Internal conflicts and character arcs are so intertwined, many writers think they’re…
Do You Really Know How to “Show, Don’t Tell”?
Part of fast-tracking to success lies in writing novels that readers can quickly sink their teeth into. That usually means…
Insights into Your Midpoint Scene
As we’re going deeper into the ten key scenes you need for the first layer in your novel, I want…
Insights into Your Inciting Incident
I want to take a look today at your inciting incident (since it’s one of the ten key scenes you…
Getting into the Layering Frame of Mind
Do you do this? Maybe you have an idea how your novel will start. You might also picture the climax…
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