Writing Pursuits Tips
Kathrese McKeeWriting Pursuits Tips is for authors who drink too much coffee, endure judgmental looks from their furry writing companions, and struggle for words. We discuss writing craft, author life, and book marketing strategies.
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MYTHOS: The Story Behind the Story
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For every great story, there is a universal truth, a timeless archetype, or an inspirational myth or legend that supports the plot. Readers want a certain level of familiarity in their stories because it...
LOGOS: 4 Ways to Persuade Your Readers to Believe
Logos (Greek word) in fiction is the logical appeal to readers to believe the story, or to put it another way, logos is the means to persuade readers to suspend disbelief.
Example: An astronaut gets stranded on Mars and must find a way to...
Why Your Scenes Fall Flat (And How to Fix Them with PATHOS)
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Your readers don’t read novels to be bored. They want to FEEL something. Tears at 2 a.m. Belly laughs. Heart-pounding tension.
That’s pathos—awakening emotion in your audience. Without it, your scenes...
ETHOS: How Credibility Keeps the Reader Hooked
Confession: I have never finished Gone With the Wind, neither the classic book by Pulitzer Prize winner Margaret Mitchell nor the Academy Award winning movie of the same name.
Well! I never!
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Persuasive Fiction: Make Your Book Impossible to Put Down
As writers, we like to believe we are inventing something new in our stories, but every story you’ve ever loved—every time you believed in a character, got emotionally involved, or tossed a book against the wall—used basic rhetoric to encou...
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Kathrese McKee helps authors write great stories; she hosts the Writing Pursuits podcast, teaches workshops about writing craft topics, and writes speculative fiction books, short stories, and flash fiction.
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