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How to Create a Page-Turner

Posted onAugust 30, 2015May 11, 20191 Comment

The Rule Regardless of premise, prose, or point of view, there is one rule for creating “page-turning” fiction: Pay out action and character development at equal rates.

CategoriesWritingTagsaction, character development, description, fiction, page-turner, Writing

Eyes On the Ground

Posted onJune 7, 2015May 11, 20192 Comments

When writers include real places in fiction, they now have more tools than ever for making sure they get the description right. Services like Google Maps & Street View, Bing, Flickr, and countless others make it easy to catch glimpses of your target location from many angles. Without ever having been there, theoretically, you should be able Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsfiction, locations, maps, Writing

Why not play God?

Playing God: Third Person Omniscient

Posted onApril 28, 2015May 11, 2019Leave a comment

Since you are the writer, why not play God? In a previous post on deepening POV in fiction, I focused on the third person limited mode, wherein the point of view is limited to a single character for the duration of a scene, chapter, part, or the whole story. The gist of that Read More …

CategoriesWritingTagsfiction, pov, Writing

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