Episode 5: Find the Why of Your Story
03/05/19 • 64 min
Whether you are writing literary fiction or historical fiction, police procedurals or YA, before readers will fully invest in reading your story, to get them past those crucial first fifteen pages, you need to show the reader WHY they are reading. In this episode, we discuss how you find the WHY of your story and how that becomes the basis for your inciting incident.
Whether you are writing literary fiction or historical fiction, police procedurals or YA, before readers will fully invest in reading your story, to get them past those crucial first fifteen pages, you need to show the reader WHY they are reading. In this episode, we discuss how you find the WHY of your story and how that becomes the basis for your inciting incident.
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