# Writing Fiction for Dummies

## Metadata
- Author: [[Peter Economy and Randy Ingermanson]]
- Full Title: Writing Fiction for Dummies
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- five pillars of fiction. You must construct a believable setting, fill it with interesting characters, create a strong plot, develop a meaningful theme, and do it all with style. ([Location 636](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002XGICAO&location=636))
- You also have seven tactical tools to use in your writing: action, dialogue, interior monologue, interior emotion, description, flashback, and narrative summary. ([Location 638](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002XGICAO&location=638))
- Always, always, always make your characters want something to change in their lives. The desire for change is what makes your reader invest emotionally in your story. Readers would love to change their own lives, so they respect anyone willing to risk making a change. But you can't make things easy on your characters. The minute they try to change things, conflict sets in. ([Location 735](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002XGICAO&location=735))
- Your story is an account of how your characters deal with conflict in pursuing change. ([Location 738](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002XGICAO&location=738))
- You must always show action happening now. Something that happened two years or two seconds ago is not action. ([Location 895](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002XGICAO&location=895))