Vlog: 3 Things That Make a Great 1st Line

Tips on how to start your novel. Plus! Famous examples and discussion about how they work.

Vlog: Writing Secondary and Minor Characters

You might know all about your main character, but a world isn’t a world without other people!

Who Else: Writing Secondary and Minor Characters

Writers know all about our main character–they’re the focus of our story. Often, the story is told in their voice.

But what about everyone else? Unless you’re writing a person-versus-nature like Hatchet, you’re probably going to have other characters.

5 Tips for Pacing Your Novel

You already know about the 3-Act Structure, you’ve experimented with beat sheets, and you’ve tried using script writing techniques to punch up the drama, but you’ve still got sections of your novel that lag.

Now what?

Video Blogpost: What Lies Beneath: Adding Subtext to Your Novel

What Lies Beneath:

Adding Subtext To Your Novel

In real life, people are not necessarily open and honest about their feelings, their intentions, or their actions. Sometimes they try to hide them, and sometimes, they honestly don’t know themselves.

In my 2nd video blog, I discuss:

what subtext is
where to find subtext in media AND real life
PLUS! 7 tips to add subtext to your own writing.

https://youtu.be/rWuvd765IBk

What Lies Beneath: Adding Subtext To Your Story

In writing, it adds to a character, helping round them out from 2-dimensions into 3 if you can figure out how to add the sub-text.

Sub-text is how you manage a big reveal or plot twist at the end of your book and have readers go “Oh! Of course!” rather than feeling cheated or misled.

But how do you add subtext to your novel?