Tension is the most important part of your crime novel. Without tension, our crime novel is boring and goes nowhere.
When we are writing our second act, we need to increase the tension as we approach the final cliffhanger before the finak unveiling of the plot. One technique is that of grading.
When we grade a scenem […]

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As you can see, if you’ve been and had a look at the comments, I got a bit lost with the dialogue and the readers couldn’t keep track of who was speaking.
Also they wanted a little more information as to whether Jimmy was any good acting as lookout. i will add more detail on this. […]

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Wrote the piece about cracking the safe and I have submitted it to my favourite writing group for some constructive crticism.
We shall see.
I value the comments of some of the very experienced writers on this particular forum as published or not, they give honest feedback on your work.
Here’s the link so you can see the […]

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You’ve spent months perfecting your manuscript. Sweated real blood over it, sent it off to have it professionally critiqued and edited and back it comes, hopefully with a long, detailed account of where you have gone wrong and the rewrites and revisions you have to do.
You read it with the attitude of, “how dare they. […]

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A couple of links to get you thinking. The first I found while doing a blog search on fiction mistakes.
It is entitled Avoiding Fiction Mistakes and is a really good blog post.
The second is entitled Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Both definitely worth a read. If you avoid all the […]

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