Effective Story Telling Theme Queen Having a deep connection to a theme is one reason a reader can’t set that perfect book down.
Effective Story Telling That Pivotal Moment Thank goodness Bilbo ran after the Dwarves and Lucy explored that wardrobe. Otherwise, we would spend hundreds of pages just watching Bilbo eat and some bored kids waiting out WWII in the countryside.
Character Development I’m Conflicted These conflicts inside the heads of your characters are not just there for window dressing. They serve a structural purpose in your storytelling.
Technical Skills Brainstorm Forcasted I used the affinity diagram to help me think through the implications of my protagonist’s socially isolated upbringing.
Technical Skills To Infinitives and Beyond Being mindful with our use of infinitives and gerunds can help us better underscore the mood and feeling of our writing.
Technical Skills Because I Told You So Instead of whispering our narrative into the reader’s ear, let’s transport them into the middle of the action and allow them to directly experience the story.
world-building Cause and Effect Like the ripples in a pond disturbed by a stone, each rule we set down for our fictional world pushes out a series of consequences.
Writing A Recipe for Character They are silly, sometimes wrong, bickering, and earnest human beings. How they say something and interact is more interesting than the ostensible topic at hand.
