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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On worldbuilding, sequels and keeping it all straight | madgeniusclub
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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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Wattpad
I’m going to try and post some fanfics (and original fics in Swedish) on Wattpad. I’ll see how that works out. I thought it might be fun. Does anyone have experience of publishing stuff there?
Crime Fiction Writing Research – It’s a Writer Thing
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