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    How To Write A Page-Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down

    By Jordan Rosenfeld

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    Infuse Your Fiction with the Powerful Tug of Tension!

    Tension is the heart of conflict, the backbone of uncertainty, the hallmark of danger. It keeps readers guessing and characters on their toes. When you've got tension in place, stories leave readers breathless and wanting more. When it's missing, scenes feel inconsequential, plots drag, and characters meander.

    Learning the craft of writing can sometimes feel like a paint by numbers approach--connect compelling character A to plot event B. To avoid writing that's formulaic, predictable, and slow, How to Write a Page Turner will help you sew the threads of tension tight for an unforgettable story. You'll learn how to:
    • Recognize the essential tension elements of danger, conflict, uncertainty, and withholding, and add them to your fiction
    • Create levels of tension in your characters through flaws, dialogue, power struggles, and more
    • Build tension at energetic markers throughout the plot
    • Use intimate imagery, strong sentences, and well-chosen words to build tension in exposition
    While this book walks you through the key areas that need tension building, from character to plot, it also delves deeper, analyzing exceptional examples from contemporary fiction's most gripping page-turners. So as you dive into the inner conflicts of a character's deepest psyche, to the mechanics of how you reveal information to the reader, you'll also discover how to craft a story your readers can't put down!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateFeb 11, 2019
    ISBN9781440354502
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    How To Write A Page-Turner: Craft a Story Your Readers Can't Put Down
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    Jordan Rosenfeld

    Jordan is an author, writing coach, editor and freelance journalist. She earned her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the author of the books, Make A Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time (Writer’s Digest Books) and Write Free! Attracting the Creative Life with Rebecca Lawton (BeijaFlor Books). Jordan’s essays and articles have appeared in such publications as AlterNet.org, Publisher’s Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Petersburg Times, The Writer and Writer’s Digest magazine. Her book commentaries have appeared on The California Report, a news-magazine produced by NPR-affiliate KQED radio. She's working on two more books from Writer's Digest Books, coming in 2015: A Writer's Guide to Persistence: A Toolkit to Build & Bolster a Lasting Writing Practice and, with Martha Alderson, Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Scene-by-Scene Through Action, Emotion and Theme.

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