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/#
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.
It has been said that the easiest way to know you will get an emotional reaction from your reader is if you have one yourself from your writing. Here are some ways to ensure that happens.
http://writedivas.com/drawing-an-emotional-reaction-from-your-reader/
Using a dream sequence to open your book can either be genius or disastrous. Here are some tips on how to pull it off brilliantly!!
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/start-a-book-with-a-dream/#
K.M. Weiland explores and illuminates the three necessary components of a story’s beginning on Storyfix.
http://storyfix.com/top-ten-tuesdays-please-welcome-top-ten-writing-blogger-k-m-weiland
Seeming to run counter to the traditional advice, there are moments when telling is the absolute best thing to do.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/three-places-where-you-should-tell/
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/
Coming up with new ways to tell stories requires a bit of this from here and some of that from there to keep your readers interested and on their toes.
Our writing often gives us chances to sort out what we are experiencing in our daily lives. Channeling our feelings through our words helps us to concretely express them in ways that help us to make sense of them.
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
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