Step 1: Create engaging and dynamic characters with opposing goals. Step 2: Choose a conflict that is important to your characters. Their investment in the outcome will create investment in the reader. Step 3: Keep raising the stakes: Your story needs several points where tension reaches a peak. Step 4: Allow tension to ebb and flow: Don’t make it […]
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One of the most important elements in a novel or short story is characterization: making the characters seem vivid, real, alive. One technique that many writers use with success is to create a character profile for the main characters in the novel. The purpose of a character profile is twofold: to assist the writer in
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Literary devices and terms are the techniques and elements—from figures of speech to narrative devices to poetic meters—that writers use to create narrative literature, poetry, speeches, or any other form of writing. Click on any of the 124 terms below to get a complete definition with lots of examples. See More . . .
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