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Read more →Different writers get different things “for free” – that is, different techniques and skills come naturally to different writers. I learned this early on, but it took years before I realized that I needed to apply that knowledge to more than my own first draft, and years
Read more →If subplots are “a secondary sequence of action,” what’s the point of having them? Isn’t the primary sequence of action enough? There are quite a lot of points, it turns out, depending on the sort of story one is writing and where one wants it to go.
Read more →The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines a subplot as “a secondary sequence of actions in a dramatic or narrative work,” which is true enough, but not always much help when you’re having difficulty figuring out which parts of your manuscript are subplots and which aren’t.
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