
For writers of fantasy and science fiction who want to deepen their craft and rekindle their wonder. Advice from a developmental editor and story guide.
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You’d be forgiven for thinking a scene ends with the outcome.
The character either achieves the thing they were fighting for or fails, and either way the scene is over, right? Time to move on.
There’s just one problem with that: a clean s...
The outcome of a scene is where we find out if all the character’s hard work has paid off.
Will they get the thing they’ve been fighting for, or will everything go horribly wrong and leave them further away than ever from their goal?
The...
We’ve come a long way in exploring the anatomy of a scene: our character has something they want in this moment, has done something about it, and encountered an obstacle or problem that gets in their way.
This is where we enter the engine...
In the same way a fire needs oxygen, fuel, and heat, speculative fiction novels have three things they need to catch light:
An interesting character who provides the air a story needs to breathe.
A powerful goal, creating the fu...
The single greatest way that speculative fiction authors can strengthen their novels is this:
Make sure your scenes follow the intoxicating rhythm your readers expect, flowing through the unbreakable chain of goal → action → obstacle → try...
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