Category: Plot

Stories are chronological. One event happens after another. However, this does not mean that stories have to be told chronologically.

Every writer has to know how to create suspense. If you can’t create suspense in your book, readers will always feel shortchanged and indifferent to your story. Suspense is THE crucial technique to creating a riveting plot.

Writing a novel can feel like staring into the void. When you’re sitting in front of a blank page, anything could happen, and that feeling is both freeing… and terrifying. This is where a good story structure comes in.

Whether you’re a planner or a pantser, just hear me out. For the writer, an outline is a tool. A good outline helps you do two things. See the big picture Organize the little details

If you can write a great scene, you can write a great book. Fiction is built of scenes. You could argue that it’s built of sentences, but I’ve seen plenty of excellent sentence writers who fail to provide the reader a compelling reason to read those sentences. This post is going to teach you 7 strategies for […]