Happily Ever After or Happy For Now
carriejonesbooks It’s a romance brawl. Not really. But it’s a bit of one. And it comes down to this: Does a romance have to have Happily Ever After or Happy For…
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Elements of Pacing Your Novel
There are a lot of components to pacing in your novel. You can think of it as: It’s linked to your novel’s structure in those individual scenes and how those…
THREE BIG PIECES TO BUILDING BETTER STORY VIA SCENE AND SEQUEL
Story is basically a sequence of events, right? And to create a story you have to put that sequence of events together in a way that’s going to jive to…
Let’s Get Fighting BECAUSE Conflict in Stories Is Good
Hey, everyone! We’re having a wee bit of drama in our lives, so we’re taking this week off in the podcasts. Gasp! I know! We never do that. But it…
What is Theme?
What is theme? This is the first in our three-week series about what theme is and how to find this abstract bugger and even develop it in your own stories.…