How to Balance the Elements of Fiction - Part 1

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Have you ever noticed how some authors tend to focus too much on writing certain fiction elements, yet ignore the others? Maybe their writing sounds a little like this…


Dialogue
Action beat
Dialogue
Action beat
Dialogue
Action beat


And on and on. Or perhaps the author writes far too much description and internal monologue and not enough dialogue or action. This becomes easily distracting, don’t you think? This is why we need to be careful that we aren’t making the same mistake in our own writing.

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