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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Writing Down the Bones: Story Construction and Evaluation The Romance Novel pt 4 Story structure

So I'm back to the flyer - I know you're mentally saying finally. Since it has been a while I want to remind everyone that this came from a hand out written by Janice Bennett. The writing the popular novel handout is from the mid eighties to early nineties.

This section is about Story Structure...

1.) Does your story possess at least three separate plot threads? One for your your heroine's goal, one for your hero's and one for the romance?

2.) Is each of the plot threads believable? Does the order of the incidents follow logically? Is there a cause and effect?

3.) Is the resolution emotionally satisfying?

4.) Is the Story worth telling?

This one is almost word per word - Janice said it right and I couldn't see how my updating it could make it any better.

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