Fiction Note and Notice Them

When the character asks himself or herself a really difficult question to show an inner struggle or conflict.

• Words of the wiser

• Aha moment

• Again and again

• Tough questions

When a character takes the main character aside and gives serious advice.

• Words of the wiser

• Tough questions

• Aha moment

• Again and again

When a word, phrase, object or situation is mentioned over and over.

• Tough questions

• Aha moment

• Again and again

• Words of the wiser

When a character suddenly realizes, understands or finally figures something out.

• Memory moment

• Aha moment

• Words of the the wiser

• Again and again

When the author interrupts the action to tell you something that happened to the character in the past.

• Aha moment

• Memory moment

• Tough questions

• Contrasts and contradictions

When a character says or does something that's opposite of what he or she has been saying or doing all along.

• Words of the wiser

• Tough questions

• Aha moment

• Contrasts and contradictions