Examples of how to write a cliffhanger (and how not to) from Mary Pearson’s latest books.
Tag: craft
You can learn a lot from writing one short story
What happens when a perfectionist takes the advice to write more short stories.
Getting readers hooked (and stringing them along)
Trying to unstick myself while drafting my current work-in-progress, I was drawing a timeline of my story (an adaptation of the idea in this post). My main plot is a question that’s (hopefully) raised in the reader’s mind on almost the first page and that doesn’t get resolved until almost the last page—the main dramatic…
Writing Active Setting (PNWA 2015 session round-up)
(I’ll be doing a series of posts with the highlights of what I learned from various sessions at the 2015 PNWA Conference. This is the first!) The very first session I attended was “Writing Active Setting,” presented by Mary Buckham. She said many writers have one of two issues with setting in their story: They…