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  • Your Scene’s First Page – The Essentials

    Your Scene’s First Page – The Essentials

    January 15, 2024February 7, 2024

    Every scene must have a point or purpose–that should be obvious. You, the author, need to know exactly what a…

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  • 10 Questions to Help Fiction Writers “Set the Stage”

    10 Questions to Help Fiction Writers “Set the Stage”

    January 11, 2021

    One of the primary objectives and responsibilities of a fiction writer is to transport readers into the world of their…

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  • The Key to Creating a Wholly Believable Character

    The Key to Creating a Wholly Believable Character

    April 4, 2016

    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

    The Cycle of Action-Reaction in Novel Scenes

    March 28, 2016March 19, 2024

    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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  • Scene Structure: Should Writers Begin Scenes in Omniscient POV?

    Scene Structure: Should Writers Begin Scenes in Omniscient POV?

    March 17, 2016

    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 Novelists Can Benefit from Using Cinematic Scene Structure

    How Novelists Can Benefit from Using Cinematic Scene Structure

    March 14, 2016

    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

    Scene Structure: Cinematic Scene Openings for Novelists

    March 10, 2016

    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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  • Scene Structure: Endings—Inevitable or Unpredictable?

    Scene Structure: Endings—Inevitable or Unpredictable?

    March 3, 2016

    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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  • Scene Structure: Establishing Your Setting

    Scene Structure: Establishing Your Setting

    February 25, 2016

    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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