This book will show you how to do it. In a practical, easy-to-understand style, #1 bestselling writing teacher James Scott Bell offers a packed tool chest of “extras”— tips and techniques that will kick your fiction into higher gear. Such as:
- Plotting for pantsers, and pantsing for plotters.
- A trick to get you through Act 2.
- How to craft memorable secondary characters (the “spice” of fiction).
- The 3 types of opening lines.
- How to transition from scene to scene.
- 3 easy ways to strengthen a scene.
- The right use of flashbacks.
- How to write a fight scene.
- Dialogue as action.
- How to freshen details.
- A checklist for revision.
