The setting of a novel addresses where the story takes place, location, but also the time period wherein the change of events occurs. Setting and time period are important dimensions to a story. In many stories they act as additional characters.
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Every good story needs an interesting and compelling character, centered in a riveting set of events that force her or him to reveal their best, and worst qualities. What do we call these set of events that push and prod the major character to show her or his mettle, their tenacious and persevering personality? Obstacles.
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If you want to write a novel then you must begin to think of the situation, and the story. Situation is context, the nature of events that brought about the story. Story is sequence of events regarding the preceding change.
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The idea for your story has come to you. Images are filling your head. You cannot get a free thought that is not related to the theme. While driving you find yourself writing in your mind. This may sound a bit crazy, but I raise the question, Why do you want to write this book?
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So you want to write a book. How did it come to you? Did you receive the urge to write your book through an image? Or did you get the idea from an article you read? Perhaps a movie held a theme that stimulated you to create your own story? Or have you, for quite
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Writers dance with our characters. The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move. The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our
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Like the crutch used by the dancers in the video, The Dance, we all wear masks. Yet unlike the dancers use of the crutch, free and willing to share, too many of us cling to the mask, hide behind it, make it the one, and only face we show the world. Writers, like all people
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