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Ever finish a story and walk around with it in your head for the rest of the month? Want that to be your reader’s experience of your story? A confusing ending, done well, might be the hook you need to keep readers thinking about, talking about, and wanting to read your book all over again. An ending gives a book its legacy. Life of Pi is a compelling story, but without the ambiguous ending, …
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Donald E. Westlake is perhaps the definitive writer’s writer, having published more than one hundred books under various names, including Curt Clark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, Edwin West, Judson Jack Carmichael and – most famously – Richard Stark. Why so many names? Partly because Westlake showed admirable brand management by choosing different names when writing in different genres, and partly …
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You’ve probably heard of an old Greek man called Aristotle, famous for rather a lot of things. One such thing is his book Poetics, the first (or at least earliest surviving) work of literary theory. In this text, Aristotle decreed plot (or ‘mythos’) the most important aspect of drama and drew up his now-famous three-act structure, a way of telling stories that he applied solely to tragedies …
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If your life is going well, you probably don’t have much firsthand knowledge about being arrested. That can make it difficult to write convincing crime or thriller fiction, but worry not; I’m here to help. If, on the other hand, you’ve pursued legal studies or have been on the receiving end of the long arm of the law, this post isn’t for you. You know enough, friend! For those of you who are …
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