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Targeting Your Audience

Posted by Rachel on February 13, 2012 in audience, planning, structure, writing |

The most important variable in storytelling is the audience, your readers.  As extensive as your expertise may be regarding your narrative, once readers take over, the interpretation is entirely up to them. Suggestive lines you had implanted to hint towards one thing might be read as pointing to another. Don’t be alarmed, that’s bound to […]

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Constructing Character

Posted by Rachel on January 26, 2012 in characters, outline, planning |

Without characters, you have no story. It is the characters who should drive and shape the plot, not the other way around. Main characters, secondary characters and tertiary characters are what define a narrative. You can’t mention X-Men without images of the mutants, or Titanic without the star-crossed lovers. A story can happen from any […]

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