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Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer
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Writing Podcast Episode 612: Meet Petronella McGovern, author of ‘The Last Trace’, on how to build narrative tension and keep readers turning the page.
Meet Petronella McGovern, author of The Last Trace. Petronella shares her top 5 tips on creating narrative tension and so that readers keep turning the page. You’ll discover techniques on character development, the challenges of editing, writing cliffhangers, ensuring you have internal and external conflicts and much more. You can