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How to End a Chapter
by Bill Henderson @ Write a Better Novel storytellingstructuretechniquesIn a novel, in a memoir, a good chapter is structured like a complete narrative: it begins with a situation, complications are introduced and build to a head, and…
To Write a Better Novel – Build a Stronger Story
by Bill Henderson @ Write a Better Novel storytellingtechniquesAs a story teller I’ve always had trouble staying on track, and so every telling differed, wildly. The King would be an important plot factor in one; in another, hardly a presence at all. Sometimes the ugly sisters got a little sympathy, other times they were irredeemably awful. I would bungle the order of things, assign important actions to the wrong characters, even leave out key plot points.