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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. When you look at the classic questions journalists ask, the first one is generally WHO? In noveling terms WHO relates to character.
Get ready to take a deep dive into the concept of character. WHO are these people, who've showed up demanding a place in your novel, anyway? You know they have a story to tell,...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Just like a journalist, as a fiction writer, you will need to define WHAT your story is about. For the novelist WHAT relates to premise.
Get ready to explore the concept of premise. Those people in your head, desperate to be part of a story? They need something to do. It's the all-important WHAT that your...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Journalists consult sources and reference materials to find realistic detail for their stories. But if you're a novelist - you have to build the reference source for your story world from scratch. Which is why you need to start setting rules and parameters with a STORY BIBLE OVERVIEW.
Get ready to get organized...
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Want to write novels, that feel real, enough to the reader to have been, ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Looking at the questions journalists ask can help you think of the characters and events in your story as real people, whose lives you are recording, just like, you were writing memoir or a news article.
Approach planning your novel the way a journalist plans, out writing a news piece. They figure out what...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. You want to evoke a feeling of WHEN and WHERE that will make readers feel like they have just taken a walk through your story world. Take a few cues from how journalists do this. For novelists WHEN and WHERE relate to setting.
Get ready to dig into the concept of setting. WHEN and WHERE the heck are your...
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Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been, ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Journalists carefully consider HOW happened to figure out WHY it happened. Fiction writers need to do the same thing. For novelists HOW and WHY refer to plot and theme.
Get ready to delve into the concepts of plot and theme. Whatever your characters are doing throughout the course of your story, whatever...
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