Our “secret sauce” is everything it takes to make a manuscript publishable (for me, anyway). Over the last several months, I’ve gone through more than a dozen techniques in-depth that I believe took my writing from rejected to accepted, everything from the structure of the whole story to building a better sentence.
I’ve been looking forward to this Secret Sauce series for a long time, but now it’s come to an end. But just look at all we’ve covered this year!
- Pre-requisites to the Secret Sauce
- Secret sauce: Re-vision
- Secret sauce: focusing your fiction
- Secret sauce: Story structure
- Secret sauce: scene structure
- Secret sauce: Behold, the scene chart!
- Secret sauce: scene goals
- Secret sauce: tension check
- Secret sauce: motivating and manipulating your characters
- Secret sauce: emotion
- Secret sauce: the obsession with being a “writer”
- Secret sauce: those stinking participial phrases
- Secret sauce: stuffing too much into one sentence
- Secret sauce: filter words
I hope to add this series to my free writing guides soon. In the mean time, I’m open to suggestions for another writing series!
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