A few hacks I’ve learned
Make your characters relatable by giving them fears, quirks, and struggles.
Reading aloud helps catch phony conversations.
Don’t head hop. An author can use this rule to add tension by allowing a character to assume.
Necessary. Make the suspense real with no other way out, but to take a necessary sacrifice/risk.
Form the antagonist just like you form the main character.
Find what’s important to your characters; their decisions are usually based on it.
Go through the purpose of each scene. Who gains from this? What does so-and-so learn? Why is there this conflict?
Never give an information dump–halting the flow of the story to give a download of the past–unless it’s in the heat of the moment.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ernest Hemingway
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