Strong character development gives your reader a reason to care what happens on the next page. It turns a sequence of plot events into a personal [ read more...]
Authors who want to control the pacing of a story need to manage reader attention at the scene level. One question sits underneath every draft: What [ read more...]
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A scene falls flat. A poem reads like a paragraph broken into short lines. In both cases, the trouble comes down to craft, which raises a [ read more...]
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