kate’s Reviews > GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction > Status Update

ah!! i finished this book!!!!
excitingggggg

will definitely have a lot to plan and prepare for and account for when starting maeve’s story

“Your internal beliefs are more important. You shouldn't superimpose someone else's system of
moral beliefs over what you know to be right and true.”

what is this therapy session 💀💀💀😭😭

this book is js so freaking helpful. i realize that i do have a lot of things to learn and implement in order to write what i wanna write the way i wanna write it

“When you work on your opening scene keep these things in mind. You need an event or circumstance.”

wait. this.

i also didn’t think about action in chapter 1. i need to. ACTION IS THE KEY IN BOOKS.

literally speechless. a scene is not what i imagined—but now i realized that i actually LOVE scenes and the lack of them is what i call “bad prose” (at least part of it)

now i know what i need to master in my own writing. it feels SO nice to have the language and be able to google the exact thing i need

“A scene is action. A scene happens. It is not a lengthy explanation of what happened. Or what will happen. Or even a big stretch of internal dialogue. It's not wonderfully evocative
description or exposition or backstory.”

WOWWWWW

just realized that many books lack scenes 😳 HELP???
this is SO important tho wowwwwww

“Very few books are written entirely in scenes. Most writers have a blend of narrative, internal monologue, description, etc”

WHAT?????? THOSE THINGS ARENT PART OF THE SCENE???? WHAT

WHAT THE HELL IS A SCENE THEN HUH???

“What's freedom if not the chance to participate
in the world? To make a difference? To protect the ones you love? To be a part of something instead of isolated?”

oh this just—

js realized my tentative outline doesn’t even have the climax like 🤣

The climax of a book is frequently referred to as a "big black moment" or crisis. The moment at which the character realizes all may be lost. The final moment which determines whether or not
your character will achieve his goal.”

YAH NO I DONT HAVE THAT HELP

ahhh! yay! 60%

question: any chance i can finish the book tmrw? 😅 i def can read 20% after work, but can i read 20% AT WORK???

id love to wrap this up asap

definitely will try!!!