Structure

The idea of structure in a novel used to scare me. I had images of an ossified underpinning that hampered creativity, interrupted the flow of prose and character development.

In the past few years, I’ve decided to overcome that fear. I realized that it’s not always wise to depend on instinct to give structure to a novel, and that thinking about it and studying its principles could make a novel stronger, more compelling to the reader.

I also took a course, an online course, which I followed pr...