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| Pacing Your Plot: 20 Ways to Rethink Your Narrative Pace |
| This year, when the bells toll that shift to a new year, the study Ive been exploring hits its tenth year. It will be ten years of studying the craft of PACING. Its not a little thing. Its been a constant rethinking and challenging what works to stop, speed, slow, pause, or halt or flip to art within a narrative. For me, its the careful unfolding of story that thinks as much about what appears on the page as youdo what does not. Its about honing the negative space of good writing. This study includes over 200 moves a writer may use to enahance your narrrative pacing: using the trifecta to connect to readers, supporting the storys theme, enhancing emotional resonance, improving your effectiveness on a word-level, adding tension, suspense, and unexpected surpriseand so much more. Find 20 of them here. |
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| New Literary Agent Alert: Julia Livshin |
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| When Your Memoir Wants To Be A Novel |
The Night Child, a novel, was born from my memoir -- a narrative of my personal history with dissociation, sexual abuse and survival. For more than a decade, with the support of my psychotherapist and trusted writing mentors, I wrote to make sense of what happened, to understand the impact, and if I was lucky, to finally live a life free of deep hypervigilance and detachmentto believe I had a life worth saving. Read More... |
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Cris Freese is the managing editor for Writer's Digest Books and Writer's Market. He edits Guide to Literary Agents (both online and in print) and Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. Follow him on Twitter @crisfreese. |
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