YOUR MIDDLE STORY : WHAT ’ S HAPPENING THERE ? By : Alice Orr
MAY , 2020
YOUR MIDDLE STORY : WHAT ’ S HAPPENING THERE ? By : Alice Orr
Raise the Temperature in Scenes with Dramatic Impact . Such scenes hook readers and editors and keep them hooked . Come up with a strong story idea . Translate this idea into compelling scenes that communicate your story to your reader with maximum clarity . To Create Clarity — Think of Your Story as a Movie . What makes a movie click with today ’ s audiences ? The primary elements are talk and action . The storyline is welldefined , and they stick to it . Study popular films from high action hits to more personal human stories . Focus on what happens between the beginning and the ending and why it has audience appeal .
What Kind of Stories have the Most Wide-Ranging Audience Appeal ? An overwhelming adversary confronts the hero who is fighting for a righteous cause . She also has internal problems and limitations to overcome . Friends and allies desert her . She suffers harrowing setbacks . She summons up all the courage she has in her and keeps on struggling . This is a Story Middle that Moves . How can you incorporate these elements into your story to make it more intense / more powerful / more dramatic ? Brainstorm the possibilities . Rethink . Rewrite . Rejoice in your middle chapters and what ’ s happening there now .
Biography : Alice Orr . Teacher . Storyteller . Blogs for writers at www . aliceorrbooks . com . Former literary agent and book editor . Author of 16 novels , 3 novellas , a memoir , and No More Rejections : 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript That Sells . Latest novel , A Time of Fear and Loving — Riverton Road Romantic Suspense — Book 5 . Book 1 of the series — A Wrong Way
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