By EditingNetwork The Slow Start: You generally have approximately ten pages to hook your reader (and often more like three), whether that reader is an agent or editor or your audience. If you do not get into the conflict and the tension of the plot within those first ten pages, your reader will likely move on. If […]
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What Character Arc Really Means – Vault – Narrative First When asked to define character arc, most people think it has something to do with how the Main Character changes within a story. While in some respect this is correct, it is inaccurate to assume that this means every Main Character needs to undergo some
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The passive voice is often maligned by grammazons as a bad writing habit. Or, to put it in the active voice, grammazons across the English-speaking world malign the passive voice as a bad writing habit. In general, the active voice makes your writing stronger, more direct, and, you guessed it, more active. The subject is something, or it does the action
Hayley Milliman The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines exposition as “a setting forth of the meaning or purpose”. You, young writer, begin writing a story. You have your characters, your setting, your plot – you can’t wait to paint a picture with your words. Caution, young writer! There is a simple truth to writing that must be
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