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Episode 108: Narrative Drive—Compelling Your Reader to Turn the Page

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In this episode, fiction editors Leslie Watts and Anne Hawley critique the first chapter of Esperanza, a science fiction horror novel by Mike Ward. They discuss narrative drive. Different people use the term “narrative drive” to mean different things. What we discuss here is the amount of information the reader possesses relative to the character. The reader can have more, less, or the same information the characters in the scene have. In the opening scene of our submission today, the author gives the reader a key piece of information that the character doesn’t have, and it changes the way we experience the scene and the question that compels us to find out what happens next.

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#Writing #Storytelling #Books and Writing #Books #Business #Publishing #Selfpublishing #Leslie Watts #Arts #Writership #Authors #Edition

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Episode 108: Narrative Drive—Compelling Your Reader to Turn the Page

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In this episode, fiction editors Leslie Watts and Anne Hawley critique the first chapter of Esperanza, a science fiction horror novel by Mike Ward. They discuss narrative drive. Different people use the term “narrative drive” to mean different things. What we discuss here is the amount of information the reader possesses relative to the character. The reader can have more, less, or the same information the characters in the scene have. In the opening scene of our submission today, the author gives the reader a key piece of information that the character doesn’t have, and it changes the way we experience the scene and the question that compels us to find out what happens next.

… continue reading

137 episoder

#Writing #Storytelling #Books and Writing #Books #Business #Publishing #Selfpublishing #Leslie Watts #Arts #Writership #Authors #Edition

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