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Want to master writing excellent scenes? Study excellent scenes to find out how they work. Here’s what makes the opening scene of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo stand out—and how you can draw inspiration from it to craft an exceptional scene of your own.
Your characters feel time passing in your story. But your readers won’t—unless you tell them how much time is passing and show them why that matters. Use these techniques that blend telling and showing to make time matter to your readers the way it does to your characters.
The passage of time seems intuitive. It just happens, right? But in reality, unless you tell your readers how time is passing in your novel, they won’t know. Use these techniques to keep your readers grounded in your story so they know exactly when everything happens.
In your story, YOU are responsible for making time pass. Here’s why time matters—and what happens if you forget to include it in your novel.
Great scenes propel the story forward with solid story structure. See that structure in action in the opening scene of How to Train Your Dragon.
The six elements of story work on every level of story. Here’s how they work on the act level.
The best way to understand story structure is to see how it works in a story that works. Here’s how How to Train Your Dragon tells an unforgettable story using the six elements of story.
The six elements of story are powerful at EVERY level of story—when you know how to use them. Here are three ways to apply them to your novel.
I apply the six elements of story to every story I edit. Why do they work so well? Here are three reasons why this story structure is so powerful.
A simple, flexible story structure framework that works at every level of story. I use this structure in every story I edit, every single day.
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