Four Ways Point of View Can Transform Your Story
Point of View (POV) is the framework for how your story is told. Let’s take a deeper look at how POV, perspective, and narration impact your novel or short story.
Five Things Good Dialogue Should Do
We writers often think dialogue should be the easiest aspect of storytelling. After all, we talk all the time IRL. Therefore, conversations between our characters should be a no-brainer. Right? Wrong! As an editor, I find dialogue to be one of the biggest hurdles writers face and they don’t even realize it.
To Prologue or Not to Prologue…
If you want to start a heated debate at your next writing group, ask if you should include a prologue in your novel. Many writers love prologues, but many readers (and therefore agents) aren’t keen on them. As with many things, there’s no right or wrong answer. Let’s take look at both sides.
The Art of Withholding Information from the Reader
I was at a writing group recently when a fellow writer felt a few scenes in her novel were dragging. She was concerned readers would be bored. (The death knell for a novel!) The solution, she decided, was to create a bit of intrigue and drama. To do that, she is...Author Interview: Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo is one of the novels I was most looking forward to reading this year. I reached out to Jill and she so kindly agreed to answer a few questions about her novel and the writing life.
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