Crafting Story Movement: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward - Paperback

by Kathryn Craft (Author), Donald Maass (Foreword by), Donna Cunningham (Cover Design by)

As a writer, you want to move your readers-to tears, to laughter, to dread, to wonder. To usher them beyond their lived experience so they can view life from a new perspective. To make their heart leap and their soul dance.

CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward is a writing craft guide that shows you how to create emotional storytelling, build reader immersion, and design a novel with irresistible momentum.

Guided by examples from masters across genres-and inspired by the author's background as a dance critic and developmental editor-you'll discover:

• • Fiction pacing techniques that keep readers turning pages
  • Story movement strategies to sustain narrative momentum
  • Character-driven storytelling tools to make readers care
  • Ways to connect with readers on a visceral, emotional level
  • How to choreograph scene-to-scene flow so every beat matters

Whether you're writing high-stakes suspense, tender romance, or thought-provoking literary fiction, this book offers the shift in perspective that will help you claim the power of movement in fiction-and write a novel that lingers in your readers' hearts long after "The End."