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Category Archives: Pacing
How to Choose Your Story’s Plot Points
A thorough understanding of story structure can help you to build an awesome story. Ignore the wisdom of the mechanics and your story can end up a disappointment due to lost opportunities.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/choose-your-storys-plot-points/#
Begin from the Middle: How to Start Your Story In Medias Res
By starting a story in the midst of action, writers can hook readers with a literary technique as old as the Greek epics—in medias res. Paul Buchanan explains how.
4 Things Writers Can Learn From Making a Movie
Tempering your vision with reality can often be a hard pill to swallow. Here are some reasons why and how to cope with them.
3 Questions to Ask Yourself When Writing a Memoir
From Writer’s Digest: Author Eli Jaxon-Bear shares three essential questions you must ask when writing a memoir.
Most Common Writing Mistakes: Poor Cause and Effect
Cause and effect are some of the touchstones of good fiction, however not using them correctly or effectively can do more harm than good.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/most-common-mistakes-series-are-you-2/
How to Mess Up Your Lead Character’s Ordinary Day
Making life difficult for our main characters is the lifeblood of the conflict and suspense that drives our stories. Here are some tips on how to that in some really excellent ways from James Scott Bell.
https://killzoneblog.com/2018/10/how-to-mess-up-your-lead-characters-ordinary-day.html
Control Your Speed, Control Your Pacing
Controlling the pacing in your work also allows you to have some measure of control over how fast your reader devours your meticulously written scenes and how eager they will be to turn the page.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/control-your-speed-control-your-pacing/#
Surprise vs. Suspense and How to Pair Them in Your Writing
Using only surprises to amp up the tension in your story don’t always work as well as you might think. Here are some ways to make that work better for you.
Take Your Foot Off the Gas: Fiction from Point A to Point B
Don’t turn your story into a race to the finish. Take the time to develop your story and characters so that your readers can enjoy the journey your book is.
