Writing Point of View: 7 Books for New & Advanced Authors
Today’s addition to Author Alliance’s Writers Tool Box focuses on writing point of view. We’ve included books for new, intermediate and advanced authors. While new writers are notorious for violating point of view rules, advanced authors who write deep point of view also commit violations. Writing Point of ViewEvery great fiction author must first master writing deep […]
Continue readingPlot: 18 Great Books on Plotting
“What if Cinderella had been sent to kill the prince?” ― J.C. Morrows, A Reluctant AssassinWe focused on Structure in the last edition and now turn our attention to Plot. Think of an artist. If Structure is where the artist draws her outline, she plots to add color and detail to bring the painting to […]
Continue readingSTORY STRUCTURE: The Foundation of any Good Story
Our Writing Toolbox blog focuses today on Story Structure. Plot and Structure are often thought of as one and the same but are quite different. Our next topic is plotting, so all we want to do today is remind that structure and plot are two separate writing elements.Structure is to authors what the foundation represents […]
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