Today, I’m guest posting on The Write Practice, with a post titled “Does a Book Need Structure to Be Published?” Here’s an excerpt:

I used to hate the whole idea that something as inherently artistic and, well, instinctive as writing fiction could (or, worse, should) be forced to adhere to structure. The notion is so non-intuitive as to be dumb.

Structure = formula = cliché = what’s-the-point?

No way I was going to try to stuff my creativity into the straitjacket of a preset structure created by some tweed-jacketed nincompoop out there in literary land.

Needless to say, I resisted the whole notion of structure for years. But at a certain point, every writer has to ask, “Does a book need structure in order to be published?”

Keep reading!

Structuring Your Novel: Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition (Amazon affiliate link)