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Plot Giving Your Thriller the Relentless Pace and Gripping Tension It Needs

Award-winning journalist Jennifer van der Kleut shares four tips for giving a thriller the relentless pace and gripping tension it needs.

Jennifer van der Kleut

Write Better Fiction Top 4 Tips for Writing Great Beginnings Abigail Owen

Writing Techniques Better Story Structure Through Musicals and Kung Fu Movies Rob Hart

Write Better Fiction 4 Reasons I’m a Plotter, Not a Pantser Rosie Walker

Write Better Fiction How to Create Synergy in a Split-Time Storyline Katherine Reay

Write Better Fiction Are We Over the Hero’s Journey?Nadia Salem

Writing Techniques The Big Reveal Tiffany Yates Martin

Write Better Fiction This Changes Everything Ran Walker

Young Adult Why It’s Fun to Write About What Happens After the World’s Been Saved Kamilah Cole

Write Better Fiction Want to Write an Unputdownable Book? Try a Cliffhanger (Or Two)Jen Craven

Write Better Fiction 8 Tools for Pacing Your Novel Christine Wells

Write Better Fiction The 7 Rules of Writing a Revenge Story Sarah Bonner

Write Better Fiction 8 Tips for Plotting a Great Heist Novel (or How to Be a Thief)Sara Desai

Writing Techniques Personalizing Familiar Tropes in Fresh and Fun Ways Jessica Joyce

Write Better Fiction Turn the Tables on Popular Tropes in Fiction Liz Kerin

Write Better Fiction 4 Rules on How to Write the Conflict Between Loyalty and Self-Interest in Fiction Kelly Loy Gilbert

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