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Story Renovation – Tear Down and Rebuild

Story architecture is how Larry Brooks likes to describe the four-part structure of a novel (or screenplay, from whence the concept came). In keeping with that analogy, you could say my first NaNoWriMo effort was a doghouse slapped together by … Continue reading

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The Plot Thickens

The phases of writing a novel are, in my fairly limited experience, pretty straightforward: An idea that has a brilliant ‘what-if’ element develops in your brain and becomes your killer concept. The structure of the story – the plot – … Continue reading

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