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Pacing, Plotting
 By Naomi Musch, on November 27th, 2009A Novel is More than a Beginning and an End Here are some novel facts: Most average novels run between 55,000-80,000 words. No matter how you hammer them on the page, that’s a lot of words. When, for the first time ever, [...] Characterization, Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting, Showing vs. Telling
By Teri Dawn Smith, on November 13th, 2009Creating Emotion in Writing Almost every writing class or craft book will tell you the same thing: fiction must create a compelling emotional experience. The problem is these teachers also let you know that if your character cries, the reader probably won’t. So how do you build this emotion? Simply writing highly emotional phrases such as her [...] Characterization, Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting
By Teri Dawn Smith, on October 9th, 2009The Hero’s Outer Journey A compelling hero takes two journeys in a story. The outer journey follows the plot line. It includes the goal, motivation and conflict we’ve already discussed. It begins with his goal and the steps he takes to reach that goal. Make sure you make the goal a seemingly impossible objective. A desire [...] Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting, Setting
By Teri Dawn Smith, on September 4th, 2009Planning Your Story’s Setting The Importance of Your Story World If you’ve finished Lesson 1 and discovered the goal, motivation and conflict for your story, you need to think about the setting. The setting plays an important role in the story since it anchors the reader in a time and place and provides a foundation. Several items [...] Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting
By Lynn Dean, on August 5th, 2009Have you ever heard of the shortest stories never written? A Woodcutter’s Life by Tim Burr Pirate Gold by Barry D. Treasure Snakes in Tall Grass by Leva Malone My Struggle with Insomnia by Anita Knapp Pitfalls of Procrastination by Ida Dunmore You get the idea…once you get past the title, there’s not much to say. How do you come up with [...] |
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