ONE MORE REASON TO GET A GOOD EDITOR
In Chapter Ten someone needs to be sacrificed. I’d already
doomed the MC’s best friend in Chapter Two and needed another victim. I came up
with a minor character, readers could learn to hate. She makes regular
appearances in scene to further this particular plot line. In Chapter Four I
was compressing time as I moved from one major event to another. I made a brief
mention of a visit this character made to the MC’s home and how the MC felt
about it. My editor suggested this would make a good scene. At first I was sceptical.
After all, it would only be about the minor character snooping around the MC’s
home. What I thought would be boring has turned out to be just the opposite. It
just goes to prove that even the most trivial situations can add a touch of
drama. That’s one more reason to get a good editor to read through your work.
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