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Book Tips Free For Writers - Plot and Structure of your Book

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Book Second Draft - More Rewriting of Your Book

 

 

The Reader wants to be the hero - heroine of the book, that's why s/he continues to read on and turn pages. Give the Reader Reasons to identify with the Lead.

 

 

Refine your work in the Second Draft of the book. Cut, Deepen, Polish, Draw out the Suspense of your book by Delaying the Information and Action that Inform the Work. Make your Characters are profound and interesting, make sure your chapter or scene endings include that important Read On Prompt.

Replace descriptive parts of the book with Action and Dialogue. Cut existing Dialogue and Verbiage. Less may be better. Give Good Lines to your Antagonist to make her interesting and dynamic. Add Conflict and refine it, make it really desperate.

Keep - make the scenes Tense. Every scene in the book has a Hot Spot where it peaks. Find the Hot Spot in each scene and Focus on it. If there is no Hot Spot, then create one or cut the scene. Cut anything that does not Serve the Action and the Forward Movement of the story.

Let matters hang in uncertainty, don't bring anything to a resolution too soon. Raise questions and Delay giving the Answers. Try to move from one scene that you leave Unresolved, Hanging, to another scene that you also leave Hanging and Unresolved, to build suspense, Tension, and More. If it gets a little slow, make something Unexpected happen, a Surprise. Send in the Ninjas or something.

 

Have a Weird or Mystical character in the book who hovers on the outskirts of the scene, never really appears other than briefly, until the end, when he Pounces, like the shark in Jaws. It's disturbing and scary, like a stalker.

 

Refine the Second Draft of your book to show how others treat the Lead, what they say about her, how they act behind her back, bring out her Character Traits. You can make the Lead Multidimensional. That means she can be, say, a cat lover, but a dog hater, respectful to her father, but a man-hater. Having different facets and foibles will make her more interesting and volatile, but you have to be careful to keep her likeable or fascinating to the Reader. We need to Care about her, either positively or negatively. Remember, it's the Lead's Story you're telling.

The Lead character of your book should be carefully and fully developed to demonstrate his Profound Journey, his Realizations about himself and others, his new Beliefs and his Actions as a result. Now is the time to give it all Depth and an Organic Wholeness, make him Rounded and Living.

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Sometimes the whole thing is just dumped on him, thrown at him, and all he can do is React, go with it, do the best he can. This can be the scariest way to handle it, totally Out Of Control.

Next, we'll look at Suspense and how to get it, Conflict and how to Apply it in your book, Context and how to show it, and what Context can be made to show.

 

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