How to make your plot engaging in 2 easy steps
Creating a compelling storyline comes down to two simple rules: premise and event succession.
How to find your novel’s audience in 7 steps
Finding the right target audience for your book can make the difference between bustling sales, excited readers, and a burgeoning writing career versus the loneliness, discouragement, and wasted effort of trying to sell your book to people who don’t want to buy it and never will. Here’s why: If you go the traditional publishing route, knowing the target market for your book helps you to talk like a savvy marketer to agents and publishers deciding whether to publish your book.If you know your target market, you can speak directly to the people who already want your book, saving time, energy,...
How to nail your novel’s pacing
There are a few different elements of your manuscript you can play with to create effective pacing.
Romance Novel subgenres: How to pick yours
This post will break all of the romance subgenres down for you, and hopefully allow you to find your niche as a writer.
Protagonist vs. Antagonist Explained: Definitions and Examples
If there’s one thing every story needs, it’s conflict. And while conflict takes many forms, some of literature’s most beloved stories involve conflict in the classic form of the protagonist and antagonist.
How to use the 3-Act Story Structure in your novel
Though there are many different ways you can structure your novel, the 3-act story structure is one of the oldest and most common, used by novelists, poets and screenwriters to great effect.