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Top Five Reasons Your Novel Will Succeed
February 1st, 2013 | How to write a novel | journalpulp | No Comments
5. Your storyline is compelling You’ve created a sequence of events that progresses logically and purposefully and that culminates in climax. This sequence is called plot. The plot of a short story can (and probably should) involve just one single incident or main conflict. Conflict is clash. A clash of what? A clash of […]
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Climax: Bringing Together The Essential Components Of A Novel
August 11th, 2011 | Characterization, Climax, Plot, Storytelling, Style | journalpulp | 2 Comments
A good novel consists of four primary components, all of which interact in an interdependent and symbiotic way. Those elements are plot, character, theme, and style. (The recapitulation of theme-and-plot combined is what I call The Situation.) Of those four components, the first three are primarily concerned with subject-matter, and the last — style, which […]
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Top Five Reasons Your Novel Will Succeed