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Analyzing your story, Part-3: Your story’s logic

From Rick: Story logic comes from two sources: external and internal. Both are equally important. Let’s first define what I mean by each. External logic deals with how pieces of information, such as historical and scientific facts that relate to

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Analyzing your story, PART-2: Keeping your reader in the loop

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In PART-1 I looked at your story’s purpose, focusing on what you, the writer, want to convey to your reader and what you want your reader to think about. I maintain that every good story does this. Perhaps the most

How to write a story

Analyzing your story, PART-1: Your story’s purpose

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In the online writing group I’m involved in, one of the members is very good at pointing out story flaws from a reader’s perspective. Over the next few posts, I’m going to delve into these issues with the goal of

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Story flaws: Finding and fixing them—PART 2

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From Rick: In PART-1, I talked about three major flaws a story can have: (1) The story fails to engage the reader (2) The characters fail to engage the reader (3) The story takes too long to become interesting (or

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Story flaws: Finding and fixing them—PART 1

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From Rick: What’s wrong with your story? Why are magazine editors rejecting your short stories? Are your novels getting mixed reviews (or no reviews)? In a series of two posts I’m going to offer some suggestions for things you can

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Tips for writing a scene

06/22/2020 Write Well, Write To Sell 608 Views 1 Comment rick taubold, writing scenes

From Rick: You’ll find many articles on the internet and whole books devoted to advice on how to write a scene. I’m not going to pretend to know everything nor claim that I know better. What I want to do

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Story structure models–PART 3

11/18/2019 Write Well, Write To Sell 472 Views 0 Comments editing tips, good writing techniques, novel writing, outlining, pantsing, plotting, rick taubold, story structure

From Rick: Last year I did two posts on story structures and had thought them to be relatively complete. However, I was recently contacted regarding the first of those two posts. The person who contacted me praised the post and

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Story structure models–PART 2

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From Rick: In Part 1, I gave you some reference articles to read regarding various story structures. Before I get started, I want to make a couple of comments: (1) I do not use any of these methods directly when

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Story structure models–PART 1

08/13/2018 Write Well, Write To Sell 458 Views 0 Comments editing tips, fiction writing, good writing techniques, novel writing, outlining, pantsing, plotting, rick taubold, story structure

From Rick: As promised last time, I’m going to be discussing story structure, and I will be doing it in two parts. If you didn’t read last week’s post, you probably should do so first. In this part, I’m simply

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When you’re stuck on a story

06/27/2016 Write Well, Write To Sell 399 Views 0 Comments fiction writing, good writing techniques, rick taubold, story plot, writer's block

From Rick: Over at Silver Pen Writers (www.silverpenwriters.org), Edwin Riddell, one of the Silver Pen Directors, writes an occasional columns, one of called “The Horse’s Mouth.” You can read this at Silver Pen by joining the site (it’s free and

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