Structuring Your Novel: writing tips for inspiring writers and curious readers

Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story by K.M. Weiland is the third book in the Helping Writers Become Authors series and sets out to demonstrate how the structure of a novel is the foundation to successful stories. Through examples in books and films, the universal aspects that help build a powerful plot and character arcs. Proper story and scene structures are detailed to time a story’s major events with better pacing and progression. In Structuring Your Novel, inspiring writer will learn:

• How to determine the best methods for unique and personal visions for a story.

• How to identify common structural weaknesses and flip them around into stunning strengths.

• How to eliminate saggy middles by discovering the “centerpiece.”

• Why conflict on every page is not necessary

• How to discover the questions writers don’t want readers asking about the plot and writers do want readers to ask

As an inspiring writer with tons of story ideas, I have no idea how to get started. Structuring Your Novel is a wealth of tips and guidelines with real examples to illustrate how and why these tips work. Every book, regardless of genre, has the same base, the same skeleton which appeals to readers. All stories are about characters, a setting, and a conflict or conflicts. Once those are in place, the meat of a specific story can be added. While reading this book, I took tons of notes to look back on as I outline and plan my stories. I look forward to reading the rest of the books in the Helping Writers Become Authors series. Even if you aren’t an inspiring author, this book will help everyone recognize story elements that are present in successful stories in movies and books and when they are not present is when the story fails. I recommend Structuring Your Novel. 

Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story 

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