By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy
I'm over at Writers in the Storm today with Take Advantage of Your Reader’s Expectations. Here's a sneak peek:
To strengthen your story, look at each scene as a reader would.
We writers spend a lot of time looking at our work like, well, a writer. We study plot and structure, pace and tension, character and dialogue, but how often do we think about how the reader is going to react to our story?
One of my critique groups is a “critique as we write” group. Every week, we turn in two chapters of our first drafts or whatever draft we’re revising. It’s a great way to keep our writing momentum going since we have people waiting for pages, but it’s had a much better benefit than we realized when we started the group.
We get real-time feedback about what readers expect to happen next.
This has utterly changed the direction of two of my novels so far, and both for the better.
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