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A story of fiction has one or more leading characters, who appear on the paper stage, and act according to your directions, and say the things you write into their mouths. You determine if the plot or action of the story is based on real events, purely imaginative events, or a combo o...
Here, in "How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II," Frey offers powerful advanced techniques to build suspense, create fresher, more interesting characters, and achieve greater reader sympathy, empathy, and identification."How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II" also warns against the pseudo-rules ...
How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II also warns against the pseudo-rules often inflicted upon writers, rules such as "The author must always be invisible" and "You must stick to a single viewpoint in a scene," which cramp the imagination and deaden the narrative. Frey focus...
Back to the process. Once I had that idea, along with a few other things that I knew would happen later, I started outlining “scenes,” the fictional equivalent of chapters in a non-fiction book. Scenes tend to be shorter than chapters, so naturally there are a lot more of them. I...
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5. Don't be too serious. Let your characters talk the way they want to talk, let them say what they need to and leave the melodrama to soap operas. 6. Write each line of dialogue differently. Some people are eloquent, some people curse, and some people use short quips and shaky 'I...
5 Tips for How to Write a Book for Teens Writing for teenagersshares a few characteristics with writing for an adult audience. On a surface level, a YA novel just needs to be is a good story that will appeal to teens. If you have mastered the elements of writing fiction, you could tr...
As someone who has spent a lot of time researching myths and ancient history for my historical fantasy novels (yes, I know they’re not the same thing), I feel I have a unique kinship to historical fiction. But it can also be challenging. There’s a reason I write historical fantasy ...
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