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Writing specific GenresWhat is a 'genre'? It's a fancy French word for 'type' or 'kind'. A 'Thriller' is a 'type' of story. Thrillers therefore make up a 'genre'.

Secrets of the PlotThe one overriding principle you have to remember when creating a blockbuster of a plot is to avoid randomness. A good story is a chain of events, and each link in the chain is bound to other links (otherwise it isn't a...

The Basics of Plot. Although you will obviously be familiar with the concept of 'plot', most people don't actually think in a plot-like fashion.

Writing a three act story - dealing with the middle act. In the second or middle act, you get to expand the story past the initial 'inciting incident', and develop the characters and their various drives and needs.

Any good work of fiction has a basic set of components. Without these various elements, your book will be unsatisfying, or worse, unreadable. Many new authors make the mistake of copying or 'aping' an existing writer's style, or a...