Category Archives: Writing children’s fiction

Let’s take a look at a story beginning!

Copyright © 2025 Jerry Dunne First, we will look at a badly written short story beginning and point out its major craftsmanship flaws. Then we will look at the piece rewritten up to a suitable standard of craftsmanship and point … Continue reading

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The story’s 3-act plot arc structure

Copyright © 2023 Jerry Dunne The plot isn’t a series of events that move forward in a random way. The events are connected by cause and effect and have a very definite structure to them. In this way, the plot … Continue reading

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