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Plot, Pacing, and Structure
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Falling in love JFSurvivor 1 37729 Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:09 PM 
Serial or Series S. T. Collier 2 27615 Monday, April 6, 2015 2:48 PM 
The beauty of a swiftly moving plot! Lucy Silag 2 30452 Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:12 PM 
Snoozefest? JPKippling 3 30729 Thursday, June 18, 2015 7:26 AM 
How IDENTITY THIEF taught me enough is enough NoellePierce 3 28149 Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:50 PM 
Reading a series: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Joani Davis 3 28266 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:30 AM 
Do misdirection and ambiguity bother readers or keep them engaged? Stephen Wechselblatt 3 31068 Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:42 AM 
What's the point of a Prologue? Timothy Maguire 3 36871 Monday, November 28, 2011 1:24 PM 
How To Combat A Sudden Change Of Pace A Turcotte 3 45200 Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:09 AM 
the story AFTER the guy gets the girl Paroma 3 34134 Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:37 PM 
Climax chapter issue Linnea Ren 4 37014 Sunday, June 22, 2014 1:59 AM 
Question of the Drama Queens??? Mac Bizzo 4 31918 Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:58 PM 
Point of Telling Lucy Silag 4 44221 Monday, August 19, 2013 9:25 PM 
Understanding Scenes and Sequels momgotshocked 4 32614 Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:22 PM 
Summary versus Scene InkMuse 4 29547 Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:52 PM 
Show don't Tell -Your opinions on 2013 Edgar First Book Nominees Three Borzoi 5 42824 Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:02 AM 
Getting past the first chapter... Tabetha Waite 5 28341 Monday, December 5, 2011 3:59 PM 
A Decade of Storyline ME Chick 5 53205 Tuesday, August 9, 2011 4:05 PM 
Should she say yes or no? JFSurvivor 6 35568 Tuesday, October 6, 2015 3:03 PM 
knitting in subplots Lucy Basey 6 34936 Tuesday, June 16, 2015 2:44 PM 
Chapter length questions Wonderdoodle 6 36423 Saturday, November 1, 2014 9:47 PM 
Structure LJA 7 30036 Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:47 PM 
The Dreaded 'Middle' Alexandra Hartley 7 58854 Wednesday, August 3, 2016 1:31 PM 
Showing Versus Telling Danielle Bowers 7 28862 Friday, March 9, 2012 10:00 AM 
The Effectiveness of Chapter Titles J Boone Dryden 7 43571 Monday, March 23, 2015 4:32 AM 
Exposition... what's not/enough? Michael Guarneiri 7 27857 Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:01 PM 
The Significance of Plot without Conflict MariAdkins 9 40981 Saturday, July 7, 2012 12:38 PM 
The Writer as the Movie Director M Romero Nunn 9 33345 Monday, February 20, 2012 2:41 PM 
Making parallels with myths--question! NoellePierce 9 49007 Sunday, June 22, 2014 1:46 AM 
Origin Story: Where to Include It? VA Diaz 10 42310 Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:02 AM 
Sex, Romance and Relationships in Books that Aren't Romances LilySea 10 45247 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:27 PM 
How do you deal with going back and forth in time? Lucy Silag - Book Country Director 11 47665 Wednesday, February 10, 2016 11:31 AM 
What do you do when your characters rebel? Maria Granovsky 11 37144 Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:53 PM 
Instinct in Plotting Amy Sterling 11 39635 Thursday, August 4, 2011 7:06 PM 
Titles. They're Hard to Come Up With. Nefasti 12 36477 Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:17 PM 
Managing Tension: Pulling the Reader Through the Story Elizabeth Moon 13 46402 Monday, October 14, 2013 4:57 PM 
Narrative Time J Boone Dryden 13 30918 Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:24 AM 
Inciting Incidents, Catalysts, Premise and Debate Herb Mallette 14 47931 Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:14 PM 
Is telling rather than showing ever acceptable? Rachel Russell 14 43543 Thursday, November 21, 2013 4:14 PM 
Time Bradley 14 46636 Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:42 PM 
Chapter length really does matter...or does it? Tawni Peterson 15 34922 Monday, February 13, 2012 10:41 AM 
How Much of What you write is carefully planned and How Much is not? Tony Colina 17 43041 Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:39 PM 
'Rules of Story' Nicki Hill 18 90789 Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:36 AM 
Calling all Series Writers! Story Development over Multiple Books? LilySea 19 44019 Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:15 PM 
Loose ends: love 'em or hate 'em Marc Poliquin 21 41848 Friday, November 23, 2012 6:16 AM 
Unhappy Endings and/or When We Aren't the Good Guys LilySea 22 70398 Friday, February 5, 2016 7:39 PM 
The Purpose of the Prologue Marcie 22 74210 Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:14 AM 
Plotting a Trilogy - advice or links? NoellePierce 26 48340 Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:33 PM 
Do you outline? MarieDees 48 59249 Friday, June 12, 2015 5:07 PM 
Swain's formula: Flight path or Clipped wings? Michael R Hagan 52 91793 Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:56 PM 
 

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