5 Simple Ways to Create High Stakes in Your Story
Fiction writers are told they must create high stakes. What are stakes and why are they so important in fiction?…
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Crafting Snowball Stakes for Your Fiction
Today’s post is by international best-selling author DiAnn Mills. Creating high stakes is much like a snowball gaining strength as…
The 8 Essentials to Writing a Commercially Successful Novel – Enrollment Open!
The secret to writing a successful novel lies in being able to identify what’s missing in your scenes and using…
The Secret Formula to Writing the Commercially Successful Novel
I’ve been writing novels for more than three decades, and while I have learned a lot about how unpredictable the…
Raising the Stakes in Every Scene
Today’s guest post is by best-selling author DiAnn Mills. In the art of story writing, high stakes keep the reader…
Mastering the 4 Key Elements to Support Your Novel
Since we’ve been exploring masterful writing over these last few months (and will continue to do so), I want to…
Revisiting the Four Primary Pillars of Novel Construction
Over the last five-plus months we’ve been exploring the four primary, essential components of novel building, which I label in…
The Valuable Lessons Conflict Teaches Us
As we wrap up our look at the third corner pillar of novel construction—conflict with high stakes—I’d like to make…
A Look at Inner and Outer Conflict in Your Novel
We’re knee-deep in conflict (in our look at the four crucial corner pillars of novel construction). Let’s take some time…
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