THREE BIG PIECES TO BUILDING BETTER STORY VIA SCENE AND SEQUEL
carriejonesbooks Story is basically a sequence of events, right? And to create a story you have to put that sequence of events together in a way that’s going to jive to…
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Three Hot Tips To Make Awesome First Pages
Carrie has been talking to a lot of her authors lately about the beginning of their stories and how to make them awesome. And Carrie has a lot of tips…
Let’s Get Fighting BECAUSE Conflict in Stories Is Good
Hey, everyone! We’re having a wee bit of drama in our lives, so we’re taking this week off in the podcasts. Gasp! I know! We never do that. But it…
What is Theme?
What is theme? This is the first in our three-week series about what theme is and how to find this abstract bugger and even develop it in your own stories.…
Baby Got Backstory Using Backstory in Your Writing
A long time ago we talked about backstory on our podcast, DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE, but we thought it would be pretty helpful to quickly talk about it here…