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Make promises and fulfil them in a satisfying way — here’s what to do
There is much more to say on the matter, and I could go endlessly about it
What makes a story a story? What’s it all about? And why your first draft can
The trick to a good story is to make promises to the reader and then fulfil them
If you get to the end and the reader still doesn’t know what happened to the
That’s also why your story won’t be finished the first time you write it
Only when you know your ending can you build a fantastic narrative around it and weave in
Everything else in your novel can be fixed, but you won’t be able to make the
After the excitement of starting a new story, getting stuck in the mud that plagues the middle
So you’ll have to be ready to make fundamental changes when rewriting your story
You’ll have to reevaluate how the story starts and progresses
Only when you know the ending and have a clearer idea of how the story should flow
The conflict of your story and sub-conflicts create expectations in the reader’s mind
Now it’s up to a Jedi warrior, a padawan and two rag-tag pilots to rescue her
The fulfilment comes from either saving the princess or failing to do so
They promised us Jon V Nightking(or made a big deal about the white walkers only to
Your promises don’t have to be ground-breaking, not even original; they just have to make sense
A story starts with the creation of conflict and ends when the conflict is resolved
The whole body of your story needs to be a rope that connects both of these premises
You can create smaller promises/conflicts that impact the narrative and are resolved along the way generating
And you can only hope to achieve this accurately once you know how your story starts, what
Writing books is like running marathons; you must save your strength and manage your time
I cannot stress this enough: you will have to rewrite your story and to reduce the number
Many authors only set out to write a novel once they know the ending so they can
The ending you set out to write might differ from the one you end up writing