The unspoken (and unwritten) word
Due to our own background, experiences and ‘formation’ (for want of a better word), we make certain assumptions about things that are unspoken and instinctive.
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A Matter of POV — novel writing workshop
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Making Promises to Your Readers
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7 Questions to Make Sure Your Plot Has Believable Consequences
A great plot in your fiction novel must have believable consequences in the world you create there. Otherwise, your story falls off the deep end.
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Hiding Chekhov’s gun
“Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
-Anton Chekhov
While it’s important to both take out unnecessary elements and provide the readers with adequate foreshadowing, it can be hard to do so and still have plot twists and unpredictability.
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How To Preach To Your Audience and Not Get Caught
Let’s establish one thing right now. Every story has a message. Every author has a bias. Every author has multiple biases. There’s no such thing as something that’s ‘Just A Story’. Anybody who says that clearly doesn’t understand the role that fiction plays in influencing us and our attitudes towards the world. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped start the Civil War, of all things.
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The Novel Was THIS BIG — How to write a novel workshop
There are entire books devoted to writing a “big” novel, including books with names like “How to write a blockbuster novel.” This is not one of those books in post form.
Why is it not?
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How to Write More Than You Ever Thought Possible
These are some tips you can use whenever you’re writing outside of NaNoWriMo, so keep them in mind if you want to write faster.
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Legit Writing Tip #123
Your characters MUST have agency. They must affect the plot in some way. Otherwise your readers will be asking themselves, “Why should I care about all this random stuff happening to this random character?”
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