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Disaster and Dilemma, How to End a Chapter and Increase Pacing

August 1, 2011 by Lori Devoti 3 Comments
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How to end a chapter? What’s the big deal? When everything is all tied up, you move on, right? No. In fact, everything shouldn’t be “all tied up” until the very end. In the body of your story, there should never be a place where everything is 100% good. Sure, the characters can think things … [Read more…]

Posted in: Pacing, Scenes, Writing Craft, Writing Tips Tagged: dilemma, disaster, goals, how to end a chapter, how to end a scene, pacing

How to Write a Scene, Article Two, Scene Structure: Goal, Conflict, Disaster

September 29, 2010 by Lori Devoti 5 Comments
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Miss the first article in How to Write a Scene series? Read it here. Article Two in How to Write a Scene, Scene Structure: Goal, Conflict, Disaster by Lori Devoti, a  How To Write Fiction Series. Goal, Conflict, Disaster is the basic scene structure of every good scene and yes, this means every scene should … [Read more…]

Posted in: Scenes, Writing Craft Tagged: conflict, disaster, dwight swain, goal, scenes, sequel

How to Write a Scene– Article 1: Scenes in fiction

September 22, 2010 by Lori Devoti 10 Comments

Article One in How to Write a Scene, Scenes in Fiction by Lori Devoti, a  How To Write Fiction Series. When I first started writing I sat through a number of workshops where multi-published NY Times-best-selling authors would spout what are and aren’t scenes in fiction, and what could and couldn’t be in a book … [Read more…]

Posted in: Scenes, Writing Craft Tagged: conflict, disaster, dwight swain, scenes

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