Michelle Hoover, who runs the 7 am Novelist online group and teaches at GrubStreet in Boston, shares her "Best Craft Books for Wanna-Be (& Wanna-Be-Better) Writers."

https://bookshop.org/lists/best-craft-books-for-wanna-be-wanna-be-better-writers?page=2

You can also follow her on Substack.

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Michelle Hoover has taught writing at universities for 25 years. She now leads the GrubStreet Novel Incubator program. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow. Her novels have won prizes from the Center for Fiction, All Iowa Reads, the Mass Book Awards, and more.

Lincoln Michel has Counter Craft section on his Substack page. Here is a link to his piece titled There Are More than Five POVs: A little craft rant on points of view in fiction.

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/there-are-more-than-five-povs

StoryGrid offers this advice in their article "The Math of Story Telling."

https://storygrid.com/how-many-scenes-novel/

This is information about developing compelling scenes is from The Writing Mastery Academy.

Scenes are the building blocks of a novel. Just as bricks form the structure of a house, great scenes create the framework for a cohesive and dynamic story. Each scene within a novel is like a mini-story or a smaller story arc within the novel. Scenes create the structural pace of the story. This makes them different from chapters, which can be made up of one scene or many scenes.

A scene is a single event, situation, or action that happens within the story. When you write a scene, there are four basic elements you should include. These elements are a purpose, a goal, a conflict, and a shift. Let’s take a closer look at these four important elements of a scene, their purpose, and how to write each one into a scene.

Tips for mastering scene structure

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