What makes a book a page-turner?

There are three things that make a story a page-turner: story structure, scene structure, and character arcs. My favorite part of stories is their structure. I know we’re artists and creatives and structure makes us uncomfortable and inhibited, but story structure is different. It’s not formula writing. Content and structure are not the same thing. Story structure supports all different types of content–just like a skeleton supports all different types of bodies. What’s your favorite story structure?

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