Psychological thrillers rely on crafting a thriller around the human psyche, exploring complex themes and blurring the lines between the concepts of sanity and insanity. Although psychological thrillers follow the same ideas as regular thrillers with suspense, an action-packed plot, and constant mixed signals to keep the audience strung along, there are still things that […]
The unreliable narrator is a tool that many writers use in stories to add more depth and mystery behind a plot. The narrative technique revolves around a narrator who delivers readers the story from their own perspective, but the narrator is compromised, may not have the full picture, or may have a distorted view of
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Most books are written in the format of chapters, where each chapter follows a piece of a stream of events. Chapters makes it significantly easier to digest a story, and it also gives you room to break when the scene is not necessary to keep writing. The passage of time is also typically done through
One of the most popular story structures has to be the hero’s journey, otherwise known as the monomyth. The hero’s journey has been used for centuries to structure many stories, and you’ll probably be able to recognize it after learning about the template behind it. The template was developed by Joseph Campbell and has been
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