Five Ways to End Your Novel by Laurel Osterkamp
To many people, the end is the most important part of a novel. Let’s look at the ends of five published novels to see what they did right.
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Puzzling Your Plot by Catharine Bramkamp
Approach plotting as if it’s a puzzle, lay out the frame, match the pieces, put them together, and walk away for a little, if you need to.
Five Things I Learned From Ripping Off Agatha Christie by Laurel Osterkamp
Authors sometimes worry about taking inspiration from past authors. One author shares how she used Agatha Christie to do just that.
The Novel Garden by LA Bourgeois
When designing a novel’s setting, we draw maps and scenes, but what if we do this for plot? LA Bourgeois teaches us how to think of our stories in a whole new way by imagining the novel garden.
Write Faster: 3 Tools for Novelists by Keri Kruspe
Novelist Keri Kruspe tells us about 3 tools she uses for writing and how they can help anyone write faster. These tools may totally change the way you plot, write, and edit your novel!
Tighten Up Your Story’s Sagging Middle by Tinthia Clemant
Tighten Up Your Story’s Sagging Middle – I’m not referring to the end result of inviting Ben and Jerry over every night of the week. I’m referring to fixing your manuscript’s middle sag.
A Simple Tool to Design Your Plot for Novelists
Today is the seventh in an 8-post series on plan your novel. In today’s post, we focus on a simple tool to design your plot called, “Problem-Solution.” If you missed it, the first step...
Evoke Reader Emotions by Kay Keppler
Figuring out how you want your readers to feel can improve your plotting. Everything you include in your plot should lead to emotions in some way.
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