The Inner Struggle: How to Show a Character’s Repressed Emotions
Literary Elements
Starting Your Novel at the Midpoint
By Louise Dean If you’re about to write a novel, start with the midpoint. That’s the place to build your world around. The midpoint is the point of no return in a story. It’s when the main character undergoes a crisis, and finds within themselves (or not) the necessary qualities to reverse the action or fortune
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Five Elements of Fiction: Plot, Setting, Character, Point of View, Theme
I. Plot – How the author arranges events to develop the basic idea; it is the sequence of events in a story or play. The plot is a planned, logical series of events having a beginning, middle, and end. The short story usually has one plot so it can be read in one sitting. There
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