You know the books that pull you in so powerfully you feel you’re part of the story itself, not just a spectator watching from the sidelines? I always come away from a book like that thinking, How did the author do that?! One of the common denominators of such stories is the use of internal monologue.
What are you binge-watching right now? Isn’t it glorious and indulgent, that feeling of helpless surrender? Just one more, you tell yourself, trying to ignore the alarm clock glaring at you. It’s precisely this compulsion you want to inspire in your readers, and one surefire way is to write strong and strategic chapter endings. Chapter
If conflict is the lifeblood of a story, the protagonist’s goal is its compass. A story about a person without a goal wanders aimlessly through page after page and will likely leave readers scratching their heads, wondering what the story they just read was all about. Your prose may be flawless, your plot points exhilarating,
Character arcs are challenging enough in a single novel, but trying to write a character over multiple books? It can be tough and frustrating to even know how to start. But if you’ll put in a little extra time to master the basic concept of how to structure a character arc over a larger span,
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