Grabbing your reader from the get-go is probably the single most important task for your first chapter. Here are some tips on how to do just that.
Category Archives: structure
How to Strengthen Your Book’s Thematic Motif Through Repetition
Choosing to use repetition to drive home your theme requires you to choose the how and the when with more craftiness than bluntness. Be wise in these choices and get it just right.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/strengthening-thematic-motif-through/
Representation in Fiction: How to Write Characters Whose Experiences Are Outside of Your Own
Writing only what you know can be a very limiting dictate, especially when it comes to writing fiction. So much of what seeks to pour out of our brains is outside our experience. Award-winning writer Diana Pho suggests some tools to assist us in writing outside our experience(s) and doing it well.
How to Create the Perfect Writing Process for You
Discovering and perfecting your own unique writing process is a little bit more than just trial and error. Here are some tried and true steps to help you along your way.
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/how-to-create-the-perfect-writing-process-for-you/
The 10-Step Checklist to Writing an Above-Average Novel
Ten steps toward crafting your fiction to be a cut above the rest in your genre.
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.
5 Ways to Successfully Start a Book With a Dream
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/#
The 3 Integral Components of a Story’s Beginning
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
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.