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Building Your Scenes with Beats

Building Your Scenes with Beats

April 26, 2025May 18, 2025

If you’re writing fiction, and particularly novels or novellas, you need to master scene structure. There is a whole lot…

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Cinematic Technique for Fiction Writers

Cinematic Technique for Fiction Writers

April 14, 2025May 18, 2025

Writing fiction these days is all about using cinematic style. What that means is rather than explain and summarize the…

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Show, Don’t Tell—But How?

Show, Don’t Tell—But How?

January 27, 2025January 26, 2025

This is an excerpt from Shoot Your Novel, the book that teaches fiction writers how to use cinematic technique in…

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Adding Cinematic Sizzle to Your Fiction

Adding Cinematic Sizzle to Your Fiction

December 18, 2023May 18, 2025

Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The style, technique, and methods used in film…

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Why Cinematic Technique in Fiction Is Important

Why Cinematic Technique in Fiction Is Important

July 17, 2023May 18, 2025

Cinematic technique is rarely, if ever, discussed or taught at writing workshops or by writing instructors, and that’s a problem….

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Open Your Scenes with These 3 Cinematic Techniques

Open Your Scenes with These 3 Cinematic Techniques

January 10, 2022May 18, 2025

Let’s get to basics on writing fiction. And that’s your setup in the first few pages. Readers will often stop…

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Putting Cinematic Technique into Your Pages via Movie Analysis

Putting Cinematic Technique into Your Pages via Movie Analysis

November 29, 2021May 18, 2025

Learning to write cinenatically is essential for fiction writers. By now you should know all about “show, don’t tell.” But…

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3 Powerful Cinematic Techniques for Novelists

3 Powerful Cinematic Techniques for Novelists

November 15, 2021

Readers will often stop reading before they finish the first page of your story. While this has always been true,…

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The Fun Way to Learn How to “Show, Don’t Tell”

The Fun Way to Learn How to “Show, Don’t Tell”

November 1, 2021

Many of you joined me a couple of years ago on this blog as we strolled through the movie lots…

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