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….
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What Writers Can Learn from Fred the One-Eyed Cat
Today I want to talk about a one-eyed orange tabby cat named Fred. Some of you are saying, “Oh, yeah,…
Write Your Story Synopsis with a Plug-and-Play Tool
Todays’ guest post is by Beth Barany. There are brainstorming exercises you can take to plan your novel that are fun,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How Layering Your Novel Brings Order out of Chaos
I’ve been writing novels and teaching novel structure for many years, but I’ve shied away from going into detailing what…
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