Secrets to Manage the Middle of Your Novel
If you are stepping into the middle and you fear you and your masterpiece are about to be victims of book-writing quicksand, no worries. Here are some things you can do.
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Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan
Writing Prompt: Choosing
Plot advances when characters make choices. How do your characters make theirs?
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Sue Grafton
Among other Sue-ish advice, she told me she’d realized if she was going to be a success, she had to own it. All of this is to say—you never know what the world will bring you, and what is around the next corner, and what friends you might make along the way.
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Ow. Pow. Wow. Secrets to Creating External Conflict
No matter what it’s “about,” your book is all about conflict. If you’re having trouble making something happen, here’s how to decide where you are in the manuscript, then see how you can ramp up the tension with ramped-up conflict.
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Writing Prompt: The Snow
Your main character looks out the window. It’s snowing. How would snow change the story?
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Does Your Novel Need More Internal Conflict?
Understand the different kinds of conflict and the progression of their challenges. Then explore how you can use each kind of conflict in an escalating way to make your story develop into a page-turner.
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