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The Inciting Incident: How to Get Your Story Into Motion
In the last post on story structure, we went over the first story milestone – the Hook. As a reminder, the Hook is your first opportunity to catch your reader’s attention and draw them into your story. But once you’ve hooked them, how do you keep their interest...
Progressive Complications: How to Create Better Conflict in Your Story
In every story, your characters need to want something. They need to have a goal.
If you’re writing a murder mystery, that goal might be to figure out who the murderer is and put them in jail. If you’re writing an action story, that goal might be to survive an asteroid headed...
Story Structure Part 3: The First Plot Point
In the last post on story structure, we went over the second story milestone – the Inciting Incident. As a reminder, the Inciting Incident is an event that upsets the balance of your protagonist’s life, gives rise to their object/s of desire, and foreshadows the story’s...
Story Structure Part 1: The Hook
How do you get readers to keep reading past the first page of your novel?
With all the books available to them in bookstores and online, it’s more important now than ever to immediately capture your reader’s interest and give them a reason to buy or read your book over someone...
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