• Basic guidelines for your story’s rising action
• Develop conflicts related to resolving your story’s central problem
• Unfold action to develop a stronger story
• Your main character must fail
• Your story: Thrusts and counterthrusts
When the main character attempts to take charge of a situation and overcome his central problem, the author has created a scene. This effort by the main character is called a “counterthrust.”
• Add ticking clock to create sense of urgency
• What is a scene and a vignette?
• How to build a scene for your story
• Add ‘big scenes’ to give story some oomph
• Don’t place part of story’s plot inside a dream
• How to construct a scene in a story
• Remain wary of using fast-forward in story
• Avoid violating chronology when plotting story
• Basic guidelines for devising cliffhangers
• Build rising action scenes around conflict
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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