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8 Tips for Composing Each Chapter of Your Novel Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0   Chapter 7 “Editing” – Section 1 “The Chapter”  “Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.” -Matt Hughes Recently, we've been working on all of the plot-points contained within a story and what function they serve to the overall plot. And if you've been following along with the “Write-A-Novel” exercises, and writte

7 Tips For Writing Action Scenes Anybody Can Write a Novel   Chapter 7 “From Story to Art” – Section 7 “Action Scenes” With Links to Supplementary Material Action scenes in a novel are a difficult tool to master, but well worth the time and effort to create dramatic an memorable scenes that will engage and entertain your readers. To pull them off effectively, you must be able to keep a quick yet varied pace, keep a tight focus, reflect your story, and make it all quick and crisp. Today, I'm going to give you a starting-point for honing your skills in this method of storytelling. Tip 1: Create a visible plane

7 Tips for Writing Your Story's Beginning Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 6 “Plot Points” – Section 1 “The Beginning” (Previous Tutorial)             (Next Tutorial) "Don't you know that the beginning is the most important part of every work [...] For at that stage it's most plastic, and each thing assimilates itself to the model whose stamp anyone wishes to give to it." -Plato When you speak to many writers, editors, and publishers about the topic of prologues, they will generally give you the same piece of advice—skip it. The reason is that even in the rare cases where a prologue is actually

6 Tips for Writing Your Story's Disaster Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0   Chapter 6 “Plot Points” – Section 7 “Disaster”  “There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.” -Plato After your protagonist is defeated in the Midpoint, comes the point at which they will have an emotional spiral into turmoil and dire consequences for everyone who had stakes in your protagonist's victory. Your protagonist will be impacted by this failure more here than anywhere else in the story&#

6 Tips for Writing Your Story's Rising Action Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 6 “Plot Points” – Section 4 “Rising Action”  “K'Nuckles: Disappointment is the best adventure! Flapjack: It is? K'Nuckles: Do you feel all hollow inside? Flapjack: Yes. K'Nuckles: Wished you'd stayed in bed this morning? Flapjack: A little... K'Nuckles: Ever felt that way before? Flapjack: Nope! K'Nuckles: ADVENTURE!” -The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack by Mark Van Orman Welcome to Act II of your story! You're now on a solid course towards the adventure that your story was made for—set into motion by a

Continuing on with last weeks theme of creating a magic system, this weeks LiNK is about creating a soft magic systems with another video by Hello Future Me. Where hard magic replies on clearly defined rules, consequences and weaknesses, soft magic systems can be a bit more murky. The video covers three ways to make soft magic effective: tension, point of view, and unpredictability. This video is perfect if you want to design a magic system similar to that found in the Harry Potter series, ASOIAF or the works of Tolkien.