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Check out this video from my writing bootcamp about finding the “why,” the premise of your book. You can find the transcript below. More videos from this writing bootcamp: Let’s Talk About Your Why Why Setting Goals & Celebrating Your Achievements is Important Video Transcript Good morning, everyone. Welcome to day two of our Writing Bootcamp. I am back from… Read More
A common problem I see in contests or manuscripts I’m editing is that the narrative thread isn’t strong enough to pull us as readers through the story. Here are a few reasons why it fails. A series of events versus cause-and-effect events A plot is not just a series of events. That… Read More
by Jennifer Vander Klipp Over at Pencildancer, we’ve been following the theme of Goals, Motivation, and Conflict. GMC is writing shorthand for the needed ingredients in a book. We spent January covering goals from different aspects, and in February, we discussed motivation. Now in March, we are talking about goals. While most of the Pencildancers are writing about conflict in… Read More
