Narrative Techniques

An Instant, Easy Fix To Make Your Fiction More Unputdownable

/ Narrative Techniques, Point of View, Voice, WRITING GENRE FICTION / 5 minutes of reading

I’ve edited a lot of fiction. Read a lot of it, too. I can nearly always spot the newer writers, because their control of point-of-view slips frequently. They drop into the dreaded telling, instead of showing, often without realizing it. And their narrative voice sometimes doesn’t match the character’s voice. There’s usually more evidence: Setting […]

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5 Reasons Why Ditching This Sentence Structure Will Massively Improve Your Fiction

/ Narrative Techniques / 5 minutes of reading

I wince every time I see this structure in fiction. Do you use it? The structure goes like this:  Walking to the window, he watched the seagulls soar over a silvered sea. An innocuous sentence? Actually, it’s a howling clunker of sentence, and I’ll explain why in a minute. For now, I want to draw

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