Misty Evans May 13, 2024 3:18 pm This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. The more you understand the power of the three-act structure and each story beat inside the acts, the better you get at writing a […]
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Misty Evans May 6, 2024 3:11 pm This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. Ah, we’ve reached the Midpoint of our 15-beat outline. This marks the exact center of your story. Picture your story as a roller
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Misty Evans April 30, 2024 8:33 am This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. As writers, we’re taught to build up conflicts, raise the stakes, and keep the dramatic tension taut throughout our narratives. But even the most
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Misty Evans April 8, 2024 8:38 am This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. The pivotal sixth beat, Break into Act 2, is a crucial moment that delineates your protagonist’s transition from their familiar world into the realm
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Misty Evans April 2, 2024 8:25 am This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. Remember The Clash song, Should I Stay or I Should I Go? (https://youtu.be/BN1WwnEDWAM?si=jAkwaI1RCBfaj36j) That’s the question your Main Character must ask in the fifth
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Misty Evans March 26, 2024 8:20 pm This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. This week, we’re delving into one of my favorite story beats: the inciting incident. I think of it as burning down my protagonist’s house.
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Misty Evans March 18, 2024 7:58 am This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. In our continuing look at writing beats of fiction storytelling, this week, we continue with set-up. Before we do that, I want to mention
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Misty Evans March 12, 2024 8:17 pm This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. As a newbie fiction writer in the early 2000s, I never thought about theme and its importance in my stories. After completing and publishing
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Misty Evans March 6, 2024 10:11 pm This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. Whether you write mystery, thriller, fantasy, or romance, one of the most powerful tools in your toolbox is the cliffhanger. The mirror image of
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Misty Evans February 26, 2024 8:42 pm This year, Writing Raven Author Solutions is breaking down the 15 beats of writing a bestselling novel based on the three-act structure for you. Today, we begin at the beginning – your opening hook. When a threatening message appeared on her lucky Smith Corona that morning – the
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