What are those resources at the Team level? You’ll of course receive everything that is available at the Bleacher level. In addition, at the Team level, we’ll have: • A private members forum with leaders monitoring our discussion. • Advanced level Monday night teaching chats, with guest speakers like agents and editors, with the transcripts automatically emailed to all members. • A monthly writer’s challenge to hone your word-smithing, with prizes and public recognition on the blog, as well as blog publication. • We’ll have monthly seminars on all areas of the writing life, from career planning, to time management to writing craft and even industry advice. These will also be recorded and available to all Team members. • Included in the membership is a monthly coaching letter from Susan May Warren with specific teaching […]
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Act 2: Putting all the threads together
We’re building a suspense book live here at MBT, and today we’re onto Act 2, pressing our heroine in to what I call the “fun and games” of the story. As I talked about yesterday, I’m going to address the following elements as I build her scene. First, we are going to start chapter 4 in Kenzie’s POV since we just ended Chapter 3 with Luke. I don’t always have to alternate, but it’s a nice rhythm. We’ll begin with a ReAction scene and since it’s a suspense, I’ll keep the momentum going by segueing into an Action scene. My ReAction scene elements are: Response – Now that she’s seen the “vacation home,” she has to have a reaction to it. We might thread this in with her inner journey […]
Read the RestSetting up Act 2 of your Suspense Novel
It’s time to set up Act 2 of your Suspense novel, and I’m going to show you how by moving onto Act 2 of Limelight, our MBT Romantic Suspense novel today. In Act 1, we’ve set up the foundation for the suspense – the players, what’s at stake, where the game will be played (the Cherokee forest). I’ve also set up sympathy, competence and greatest fears – those things that we’ll start manipulating in Act 2. As I begin chapter 4, and the start of the Second Act, I need to balance a number of threads and ignite the story to keep it flowing into what I call the Fun and Games of Act 2. Suspense Thread: First, I need to keep the suspense thread running by bringing the threat […]
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