Why the Last Lines of Your Scene Are Critical
Every scene has to have a purpose. I shouldn’t need to say that, but I’ve critiqued thousands of scenes that…
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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…
The Challenge of Creating Powerful Settings
Setting is so often overlooked or pushed to the background in fiction. But it is, perhaps, one of the most…
What You Might Not Know about Scene Middles
As we continue our look at scene structure and get into middles, I’d first like to talk about overall scene…
The 5 Essential Components of Scene Structure
Writing scenes can be daunting, but, as with all novel components, it just takes time and effort to learn how…
Novelists Need to Be Film Editors Too
Last week we began looking at film editing, and how it’s changed over the decades in the movie world. Now, you…
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