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Conflict, Tension and Audience Participation
Novel writers can learn a lot about story development from the screenwriting industry. In my previous blog, I dealt with how screenwriters use Story, Plot, Arc and Theme to develop a story. This...
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Amazon eBook offers
Those of you that regularly follow my blog will realise most of my blog content is dedicated to the art of storytelling and my own learning adventures into the realms of story development. Occasionally...
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Editing – early lessons learnt from professional editors
In this blog I want to discuss editing, why it is so important, and when to do it. I also want to draw upon some of my early experiences with professional editors and communication in the business...
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Editing — How fiction differs from other forms of writing
In the previous blog I discussed some of the important lessons I learnt from editors in the field of business publications many years ago. In this blog I want to look at how I needed to adapt to the...
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The writer’s toolbox
In this blog I want to look at Scrivener — a software tool that changed my life as a writer, and which today I couldn’t do without. What does a novelist or writer need in order to write? Comparatively...
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Simple story patterns
In my blog over the years, I have written a lot about story structure. Story structure is all about the foundations of a story. From childhood we are introduced to stories and quickly understand their...
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Many of the articles on writing fiction differentiate between character-driven stories and plot-driven stories. I find the distinction is a bit of a misnomer as all stories are really...
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Alien Hothouse
Just to let you know that Alien Hothouse by JMJ Williamson is on a Kindle countdown offer for the period 29 November to 3 December on Amazon.com for $0.99 (normally $2.99). It is also available on...
View ArticleHow many story lines in a novel?
A story is about a character or characters who desperately wants something and pursues a goal through a series of actions and outcomes that escalate to the climax of the story, and the eventual...
View ArticleAnother look at sequences for writers
Recently I was going through my kindle library and I came across the "10-Day Screenplay" by Darrin Donnelly and Travis Donelly. It's been a long time since I read it, and so I started to flick through...
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