Episode 165 - Strengthening Your Fiction with a Premise with Liesel Hill
December 20, 2022
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Matty Dalrymple talks with Liesel Hill about STRENGTHENING YOUR FICTION WITH A PREMISE, including reasons why you should have a premise and how to construct it, if and how premises differ from tropes, reverse engineering your story, using a premise as a check on your story’s effectiveness, and the importance of internal transformation.
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Liesel Hill is a USA Today best-selling author, writing across multiple genres. As the creator of The Prolific Author Method and the moderator of The Prolific Author Membership, she uses story psychology and the idea of transformation to help other fiction authors write better books and market them more effectively to the right readers.
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"Your character should always have some sort of internal transformation. And the funny thing about this is that while most authors do write characters that change, we all know that the character needs to be dynamic and not be a totally flat character, but most people don't do much more than that. They don't really, really consciously create a transformation arc for their character. And for me, that is the most important part of your story." —Liesel Hill
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Links
From the Intro:
J.. Thorn's “The Author Life: A Limited Edition Podcast with Jeff Elkins,” the Dialogue Doctor at https://theauthorlife.com/biz/
Liesel's Links:
How to Write a Premise Statement for Fiction Authors:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-112-how-to-write-a-premise-statement-for-fiction-authors/id1496525343?i=1000568264990
Free PDF - 4 Steps to Writing Your Novel's Premise Statement:
https://liesel-k-hill.ck.page/80d98806f9
Matty's Links:
Affiliate links
Events
J.. Thorn's “The Author Life: A Limited Edition Podcast with Jeff Elkins,” the Dialogue Doctor at https://theauthorlife.com/biz/
Liesel's Links:
How to Write a Premise Statement for Fiction Authors:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-112-how-to-write-a-premise-statement-for-fiction-authors/id1496525343?i=1000568264990
Free PDF - 4 Steps to Writing Your Novel's Premise Statement:
https://liesel-k-hill.ck.page/80d98806f9
Matty's Links:
Affiliate links
Events
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