First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Fire Touched
This week’s first page falls under the genres of urban fantasy, action-adventure, and romance. Author Patricia Briggs has many fantasy…
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Understanding Premise and the One-Sentence Story Concept
Over the last few weeks we’ve been taking a look at key moments in your novel’s structure. This week, before…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Selection
Each week, we’ve been taking a look at the first page of best-selling novels of various genres and seeing how…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Support and Defend
I promised you last week that I’d give you a much better, stronger first page, and so I jumped at…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Avenue of Mysteries
I chose one of John Irving’s novels—Avenue of Mysteries—to examine in this week’s look at first pages. I read a…
Ways Novelists Can Break from the Structural Rules
We’ve been looking at the downside to the three-act structure these last two weeks, and I’ve shared my thoughts on…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
For this week’s first-page examination, we’re going to dive into my favorite book that I listened to last year—The Ocean…
How to Break Up Your Novel into Definable Sections
Last week I started diving into the three-act structure and explained that such structure is random and arbitrary. While many…
First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: All the Light We Cannot See
This week we’re going to look at the first page of the highly acclaimed novel All the Light We Cannot…
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