When your fiction is crafted properly, readers will beg for your book to end…and then be depressed when it finally does.
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May 08 2015
Anatomy of a Best-Selling Story—Part Two
Good news is that most structure problems can be fixed, although many times that requires leveling everything to the foundation and using the raw materials to begin anew…the correct way and killing a lot of little darlings along the way.
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Mar 09 2015
The Difference Between "Flawed" Characters and "Too Dumb to Live"
Which is more important? Plot or character? Though an interesting discussion—sort of like, Could Ronda Rousey take a Klingon with only her bare hands?—it isn’t really a useful discussion for anything other than fun. To write great fiction, we need both. Plot and characters work together. One arc drives the other much like one cog …
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