Top Tips From The Write Coach

✍️ What is causality and how can it improve your stories?

✍️ Keep your readers in your story. 

✍️ Do you want your readers to ask why?

What is causality? Can it improve your story?

Steven James shares an overlooked fiction technique needed in your fiction stories! Causality is the chain holding a story together. Everything that happens in a story is caused by the thing that precedes it. Therefore, a novel moves forward from cause to effect, not effect to cause. See full example of causality in the show notes at the link below.

Excerpt from Story Trumps Structure. Used with permission by Steven James.

All links mentioned are in the Episode #605 Post.

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