Posted on February 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and process advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Use this method to identify your story's stakes: Becca Puglisi defines outer motivation and inner motivation, in explaining that those two combine to create empathy-building stakes (Writers Helping Writers).
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In the beginning: Speaking of stakes, they're high for an author in the first page of a novel; Kathleen McCleary talks through the effort she's put in on her first 750 words (Writer Unboxed).
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How fiction writers can "speed up" time: C.S. Lakin shares passages from various novels to illustrate ways that a writer can make time feel like it's slipping out of a character's grasp (Live Write Thrive).
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