The Key to Creating a Wholly Believable Character
Last week I talked about the natural action-reaction cycle that’s such an important issue in fiction writing. So many manuscripts…
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The Cycle of Action-Reaction in Novel Scenes
You’re in the middle of reading a book. Suddenly you hear a loud crash outside. It sounds as if a…
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First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: The Goldfinch
In this week’s look at best-seller first pages, we’re going to dive into another literary work. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch won…
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3 Ways to Not Lose Your Readers on Your First Page
Readers will often stop reading before they finish the first page of your story. While this has always been true,…
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Scene Structure: Should Writers Begin Scenes in Omniscient POV?
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…
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First Pages of Best-Selling Novels: Rogue Lawyer
In our weekly look at first pages of best sellers, we’re examining what works and what doesn’t. We’ve covered numerous…
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How Novelists Can Benefit from Using Cinematic Scene Structure
We’ve covered a lot of diverse topics in this mulit-month look at scene structure. I mentioned in January how weak…
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Scene Structure: Cinematic Scene Openings for Novelists
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive that tie in with…
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How Writers Can Create Continuity in Showing the Passing of Time
Continuity is so important in a novel. Readers should be able to move from one scene to the next without…
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