Tag: crisis
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Of Revelation, Illusions and the Parallel Processes of Writing and Discovery…
Revelation plays an important role in constructing and/or assembling the middle section of a novel. Revelation also encompasses the uncovering of truth of what has always stood present, but remained hidden by strong held illusions and beliefs. Stories and novels stand upon revelations, ones that sustain the cause-and-effect events that comprise, most particularly, the plot…
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Protected: Of Intimacy, Revelation and Redemption…
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Of Reversals, Plausible Endings and the Artistry of Thwarting Expectations…
“A successful resolution thwart the our expectation; it doesn’t (fully) satisfy them.”—-Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers Reversals sit at the heart of a successful resolution. And since novels consist of a continual list of crises fostered by a string of obstacles, both physical and human…
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Of Symbols, Change and Arc of Growth and Transformation…
The display the revelations that take place during the denouement and resolution, end, of a novel must take place in scene, not summary. End of story revelations work much like the action taking place during the crisis and climax points where the immediacy of the characters’ actions impress upon readers the significance and meaning of…
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Of Turning Points, Disclosures and Amplifying Conflict…
Revelations in a novel not only reveal character, but also ideally raise the stakes, up the ante, so-to-speak, which ultimately intensifies conflict. The opening revelation and/or those of the first chapters of a novel establish the chaos that has befallen your protagonist, i.e. display the problem she or he is facing. Disclosures during the middle…
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Of Revelations, Developments and Hidden Aspects of Personality…
Novels consist of a string of revelations. 

 These revelations, consistently timed and well paced comprise and provide an important part of plot. 

 As such they play and inherent and necessary role in character development. Revelations lead to irrevocable moments wherein the protagonist, when faced with an immediate challenge demanding on the spot response,…