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Balancing the Need for Foreshadowing I’ve been revising a mss, taking a break from doing a new project. Recent feedback told me that my novel was great, except the opening didn’t set up the “magic” of the story well enough. It was too great a shock when it suddenly occurred on about page 50. Yes, [...]
30 Days to Stronger Scenes: Table of Contents Fiction Notes works to help you write stronger, better stories that will result in a contract! Here are 30 posts about writing stronger scenes. Get regular updates from Fiction Notes Email Address Close var fnames = new Array();var ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]=’EMAIL’;ftypes[0]=’email’;fnames[1]=’FNAME’;ftypes[1]=’text’;fnames[2]=’LNAME’;ftypes[2]=’text’;fnames[3]=’MMERGE3′;ftypes[3]=’url’; try { var jqueryLoaded=jQuery; jqueryLoaded=true; [...]
10 Checkpoints for a Scene 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Does your Scene Pass this Checklist? We’ll wrap up this 30-day series on scenes with a checklist. Where/When. (Setting) Did you orient the reader at the beginning of the scene? Does the reader know where [...]
The Stuff Between Scenes Guest Post by Deborah Halverson Join us on Facebook for a discussion of scenes. As you give thought to what happens in your scenes, give thought, too, to what happens between them. There’s a trove of information and emotion lurking in the white space separating the last line of one scene [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Best Length for Scenes? What’s the best length for a scene? IS there a best length? In his book, Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing, action/adventure author, David Morrell (creator of the Rambo character, among others), says he tries to [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents 3 Tips on Writing Love Scenes Love scenes are integral to the stories we tell whether it’s a boy/girl relationship, or parent/child, or even a kid loves a horse. (Or a whole host of other loving relationships that humans are capable of.) We know these are [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Teen Fantasy EBook: All Dialogue Scenes? Not Really What if you’re one of those writers who like to develop the conflict in dialogue. Great. It’s a popular technique these days. But it’s very rare to really see a scene with [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents More Scene Problems – Solved In Scene and Structure, Jack Bickham suggest other problems that might arise in a scene. Here is my take on the problems he lists. Cast of thousands. The most dramatic conflict comes when two characters go head to head. More than [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Stories that Lose Focus In Writing for Story, Jon Franklin says that, “As length grows linearly, complexity expands expotentially.” It’s easy to write a scene; to write a novel is hard. When someone writes without planning ahead, the danger is [...]
How to End a Story Well 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores There’s a last special scene to consider and that’s the last scene in your book. This may or may not coincide with the climax of the story; traditionally there’s a denouement, a French word [...]
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