Part of a special month-long event featuring writing tips and NaNoWriMo strategies from guest writers and fellow NaNo participants.
Writing Tips From Jane
Toombs
Plot
is what happens. Action is how it happens.
Conflict
results in action and reaction, the two elements that keep a story alive and
interesting.
Your
main character must be in in conflict with:
Another character
Society
Nature
Fate.
His or her inner self.
A personal or impersonal situation.
Bio:
Jane Toombs is now the caretaker for her S.O. who's developed Parkinson's. They
live in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula across the road from Lake Superior
and both are owned by a calico cat named Kinko.
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Jane
has, counting novellas, a hundred books out now. Samhain is re-releasing all her old gothics
as ebooks. Tule Witch, the first book she ever wrote is the first and is up at
Amazon now.
Web
Page: www.JaneToombs.com
Thanks for coming by today, Jane! Conflict is so vital, yet so easy to overlook when we're busy describing a scene or revealing some crucial back story.
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