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Understanding the “Show, don’t Tell” technique to writing great fiction. ...

Writing Tutorials Posted on: Oct 21, 2009 By: admin | 0 Comments
Author: N. Strauss Is the main character of your story a sweet, caring person?  Was the divorce all her husband’s fault?  Was she right to set fire to his car? Let your readers make up their own minds, based on the evidence. Think of a courtroom.  The defendant insists he is innocent of killing his business partner.  However, certain suspicious details come out in the trial.  For instance, he wrote a threatening note to his partner the day before the crime, he was identified running away from the crime scene with a bloody axe in ... Read More

Character, conflict, resolution: fundamentals of a great story. ...

Writing Tutorials Posted on: Oct 21, 2009 By: admin | 0 Comments
**I just found this brief article and was about to skip it; surely things like conflict and resolution are so obvious that no writer should be unfamiliar with them? And yet…I’ve edited countless manuscripts that forget the following very basic yet absolutely necessary steps. No story can survive without great characters, conflict and resolution. And CONFLICT is by far the most important. Flood your story with conflict and everything else will work out.** Author: naaz 1) Characters You can’t achieve emotional depth. Readers become ... Read More


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