Multiple storylines and timelines can bring wonderful added depth, dimension, and texture to a story, broadening its scope and making the whole more effective and resonant. They offer authors the chance to explore different perspectives on a story, and to creatively structure how itâs told to heighten reader engagement.
If your story has more than one storyline, POV, or timeline, knowing how to weave them together smoothly and effectively is a major part of how well the overall story works. Every thread should be intrinsic to telling the story, complementing and reflecting one another without yanking readersâ focus or diminishing their investment.
But the challenges with multiples are legion: How do you decide whether more than one storyline will enhance or complicate the overall story? Do the stories directly interrelate in some key way that makes each essential to the story? How many POVs/storylines is too many?
How do you structure and weave the various storylines together? How do you shift between storylines and immediately orient readers without confusing them? How do you invest readers deeply in each oneâand keep them invested throughout? What merits a separate storylineâand whatâs just backstory?
In this 90-minute live webinar, career book editor Tiffany Yates Martin will bring her decades of experience to exploring all these questions and more, dissecting the structure and techniques of published novels to demonstrate these principles in action.
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Tiffany Yates Martin
Tiffany Yates Martin has spent her entire career as an editor in the publishing industry, working with major publishers and bestselling and award-winning authors, as well as newer writers. She is the founder of FoxPrint Editorial (named one of Writerâs Digestâs Best Websites for Authors) and author of Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing and The Intuitive Author: How to Grow & Sustain a Happier Writing Career. She is a regular contributor to writersâ outlets like Writerâs Digest, Jane Friedman, and Writer Unboxed, and a frequent presenter and keynote speaker for writersâ organizations around the globe. Under her pen name, Phoebe Fox, she is the author of six novels. (foxprinteditorial.com)
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