“Write Fiction Your Reader Can't Put Down! --An Expert's How to Write a Book Step-by-Step Guide”
Here's how to turn your book into one that no reader will be able to put down. Non-stop excitement from beginning to end. And now you can do it right away!
by Steve Manning
"Riveting, a page turner, so exciting I literally couldn't put it down, non-stop excitement." Those are just some of the things you want your reader to be saying as they start and continue with your novel. If you've read more than a handful of books yourself, you know the feeling. It's what you get when you read a book that picks you up from the very beginning and simply won't give you time to breathe until the final page. And when you get to the final page, you wish there were more pages, or even another book, that you could start in on right away. Here's how you do it with your own book…
First, this kind of book is not literature. It is not a plot of the mind. It is a plot of the body. Your protagonist is not trying to find themselves in a world full of conflict and inconsistencies. They're trying to save the world (or a significant part of it) from the bogey man, who can take the form of a terrorist, anarchist, criminal, maniac, or just an alien bent on world domination.
Your protagonist is the same person all through the book, but the antagonist can change, die and be reinvented, change form or even morph into another character.
The exciting story, the one your reader can't put down, is just one damn thing after another. Your book is going to be about 50 scenes long, so you need 50 scenes of excitement. Now, they don't all have to be edge of your seat exciting, but they better be close.
A common strategy used by quite a few authors is the serrated-blade technique. You have a series of several dozen 'the hero might die' scenes separated by slightly lesser scenes as the hero moves from one threatening scene to the next. Remember, these scenes are only about four pages in length on average, so you've got precious little time to set up and overcome the disaster before your hero is off to the next appointment with destiny. By the way, the closer you can bring your hero to death, the better. Full points if you can actually kill him or her, and then bring him or her back from the dead.
If this begins to sound almost comical, well, it is. But you've got to keep a straight face as your hero moves to and obliterates each obstacle, sometimes with a little help from the fates, but usually because of his or her own experience and innate talents.
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There was a time, not too long ago, when the good guy and the bad guy were just two people. That rarely happens anymore. The good guy usually has a posse of some sort. Certainly a side kick but usually a number of characters each of whom can be sacrificed as the need arises.
And the buy guy, well, after we get rid of him, we usually find that there's a second, more senior bad guy who was pulling all the strings… until the second one is dispatched, and we see that there's the ultimate bad guy who's the CEO of bad guy Inc.
Just one damn thing after another. From kidnapping, to murder, to theft, to extortion, to brain washing, to terrorism, to nuclear bombs, to financial catastrophe, and back again. With just enough time in between to wreck a car, destroy a church, ruin a priceless work of art, poison the children at a daycare, release Ebola virus, kill an elected official, sabotage a heart transplant for the president of the United States… oh, I could go on and on.
And that's what keeps a reader riveted to the pages of your book. It's not five pages describing the scenery surrounding the cottage, and it's not the a literary picture of how the table was set. It is the action that takes place on each and every page.
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