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How learning story structure helps me write faster

Posted on November 6, 2017November 5, 2017 by Abigail Welborn

I last participated in NaNoWriMo in 2010. Since then, I’ve had two kids, quit my job, and rewritten my novel twice. Along the way, I picked up quite a bit about story structure and am now a reformed pantser (although no one is ever only a plotter or a pantser, many lean far to one…

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Getting readers hooked (and stringing them along)

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Abigail Welborn

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…

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