The Final Battle: How to Deliver a Satisfying Climax (Without Leaving Readers Numb)
Let’s be brutally honest: if your final battle fizzles, your entire novel collapses like a bad soufflé. You can...
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Let’s be brutally honest: if your final battle fizzles, your entire novel collapses like a bad soufflé. You can...
By this stage, your protagonist has fought battles, stumbled, and maybe even scored a few small wins. They’ve moved...
Writer’s block is a cliché, but that doesn’t make it any less real. You know the feeling: you...
I once spent an entire afternoon staring at a single paragraph—an angry little block of text that refused to...
I once slogged through the first half of a novel that started off brilliantly—there was a murder, an eccentric...
The first act of a novel is all about disruption—the protagonist’s life is thrown off course, they’re...