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Your Ending is the point where the struggle your protagonist has battled is finally resolved. As you lead up to your ending, your sentences should… Read More »Endings

For any novel to succeed it needs certain components.  You need a strong plot.  You need compelling characters.  If you write a unique story with… Read More »Goal, Motivation, and Conflict pt2

The basic premise of this required story element is that your character, any character, has internal and external goals, motivations, and conflicts.   Each main… Read More »Goal, Motivation, Conflict

In fiction, having an opening “hook” helps the writer start where the action begins.  It especially helps beginning writers avoid three to five pages of… Read More »Hooks

This is necessary for fiction or memoirs.   Plot is the foundation, the structure upon which we build our story.  It has been argued that… Read More »Plotting your story

By Molly Nickle Becoming a traditionally published author depends on making the mind shift from “telling” to “selling.” In other words, you need to sell… Read More »The #1 Secret of Query Letter Success

Readers expect the tension to build as the plot progresses. The rising intensity keeps them turning the page.   Imagine a day-care center.  All day,… Read More »Increasing Intensity

A scene is action that takes place in a single physical setting.  The setting is like a frame around a painting, it is meant to… Read More »Setting the Scene

By Janet Evanovich If I had to choose what the most important principle of fiction is, I guess I’d go with show, don’t tell.  This… Read More »Show, Don’t Tell

One of the hardest, yet extremely important, elements to mastering the craft of writing is conquering the art of showing rather than telling. Telling is… Read More »Showing versus telling