What is a Scene? Understanding and Using the Basic Unit of Story Structure
What is a Scene? Understanding and Using the Basic Unit of Story Structure This post was first published in March 2016 and updated in March 2023. Scenes are the building blocks of your novel. When you plan (if you plan!), you’re thinking in scenes: individual little...
Why Repetition Can Be Powerful … and How to Get it Right
Why Repetition Can Be Powerful … and How to Get it Right This post was first published in June 2017 and updated in June 2022. Is it ever okay to repeat the same word or phrase in your writing? Absolutely! Unintentional repetition is something that authors are...
Getting Apostrophes Right: From the Easy to the Tricky Cases
Getting Apostrophes Right: From the Easy to the Tricky Cases This post was first published in November 2016 and updated in January 2022. I think it’s a safe bet that you’ve come across the apostrophe before. (If not … there are two in the previous sentence.) But...
Split Narratives: Dividing Your Story Between Two or More Narrators
Split Narratives: Dividing Your Story Between Two or More Narrators This post was originally published in June 2015 and updated in January 2022. There are several perfectly good ways to structure a story in terms of viewpoint, but (probably) the more common ones are:...
