Story Like a Journalist

Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Looking at the questions journalists ask can help you think of the characters and events in your story as real people, whose lives you are recording, just like you were writing memoir or a news article.

Approach planning your novel the way a journalist plans out writing a news piece. They figure out what they will need to research for the piece, and d...