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Playing with Narrative Distance
Playing with Narrative Distance: Zooming In and Out for Dynamic Storytelling If you’re a novelist looking to bring your story to life, it’s important for you to learn about playing with narrative distance. Playing with narrative distance may sound like an abstract term, but actually you can just think of…
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Point of View in Fiction: A Guide for Novelists
When you sit down to write a story, one of your first decisions needs to be which character(s) will be telling the story – this your novel’s point of view (POV). This decision will shape every word on the page. Get it right and your readers will sink happily into…
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Head-Hopping in Fiction Writing: How to Avoid Reader Whiplash
What is head-hopping in fiction? Are you showing us the inner dialogue of more than one character within one scene? If you are, then this is probably head-hopping. What exactly is head-hopping, why does it matter, and how can you avoid it? What is Head-Hopping in Fiction Writing? Head-hopping refers…
