It is Super Natural: Four Basic Elements To Your Story
carriejonesbooks When I talk about novel structure, I talk a lot about Dwight Swain who wrote Techniques of the Selling Writer. Swain has some really cool elemental aspects that he talks…
It is Super Natural: Four Basic Elements To Your Story
Desire vs danger, it’s what your story is about
Dwight Swain has a book, The Techniques of a Selling Writer, and there’s a chapter (well many) that talk about story structure, but one specifically begins like this: “All stories…
MAKING THINGS SIZZLE – HOW DO YOU MAKE CHEMISTRY HAPPEN BETWEEN CHARACTERS
K.M. Weiland writes, “Character chemistry can make all the difference in creating a superior story.” So, how do you put the chemistry sizzle between characters in your story? That’s a…
Character Development and Novel Structures are Creepy Besties. Here’s why.
I am a big fan of boiling things down to simple components and not spending a ton of time on things blathering on, so let’s get to it, okay? Novel…
WTF EVEN IS A SCENE
It’s this element of structure for the story. We all write them, but sometimes it seems like this overlooked aspect of our stories. I’m not sure why this is. It’s…