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Pace the story

Copyright © 2014 Jerry Dunne Narrative pace concerns how fast or slow the plot movement feels to the reader as they make their way through the story. Good pace enables the narrative to offer a feeling of smooth and constant … Continue reading

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Emotion and the story’s plot arc

Copyright © 2023 Jerry Dunne Before reading this article, you will need to read The story’s 3-act plot arc structure as we specifically cover some aspects from that article here below. * This article explores the idea that the strong … 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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The plan: a bird’s-eye view (for fiction)

Copyright © 2023 Jerry Dunne Before reading this post it is a good idea to read The story’s 3-act plot arc structure, if you do not understand this plot structure. Writing fiction is a very personal and absorbing experience and … Continue reading

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Inspiration from inside an empty matchbox

Copyright © 2014 Jerry Dunne This post demonstrates how conflict fuels and develops a story. An understanding of our simple example will help the writer with both good story structure and the search for new ideas, although it’s the ideas … Continue reading

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The trickiness of writing the children’s short story (for the middle reader)

Copyright © 2014 Jerry Dunne Short story writing is a hard discipline just like all the other fiction crafts. But I suggest here that it is trickier to master more so than a novel, though it is much shorter than … Continue reading

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