Episode 215 - The ratchet, a strong plotting tool.
Podcast: Essential Guide to Writing a NovelPublished On: Fri May 01 2026
Description: How can we know if our scene pushes the story forward. Does our scene contribute to the story? The ratchet can test our scene. I talk about the ratchet and show how Cormac McCarthy and F. Scott Fitzgerald used it. Plus, a technique for searching for instances of telling in our manuscript so we can change them to showing. And C.S. Lewis's rules of writing.Support the showBuy the master class.
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