Creativity as Strategy: Lessons from Khafre Jay
Your creativity can be your strategy, your compass to fulfillment, service, and income? Jump in to this interview with Khafre Jay, founder of Hip Hop for the Future. *** Recently I had the pleasure...
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Building Character-Driven Action Adventure Stories with Lawrence Connolly
Building Character-Driven Action Adventure Stories with Lawrence Connolly – How To Write the Future podcast, epsiode 179 *** “Written from the point of view of one character and then another scene from the...
Simple and Powerful Storytelling Structure with Leon Conrad
Simple and Powerful Storytelling Structure with Leon Conrad – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 139 “ Because It’s grounded on a very simple principle. Story, well told, well crafted, well structured, will have...
FLASH SALE! Transform Your Writing with These Amazing Workshops!
FLASH SALE! Transform Your Writing with These Amazing Workshops! – Hey Creative Writers! I’m so excited to share something special with you that will help you level up your writing craft! My friend and...
Unlocking the Power of Epigraphs: Enhance Your Fantasy Novel’s World Building
Let’s talk the magic of epigraphs. An epigraph is “a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.” (Ecosia search engine/Oxford Languages via Oxford University...
At, Through, or To: Point of View & Narrative Distance in Fiction by Fallon Clark
Fallon Clark shares insight on point of view and narrative distance and how to best use these tools for effective fiction writing.
Write What’s Easy: Accepting Our Expertise by Catharine Bramkamp
Writing is expected to be difficult and difficulty is often idolized as necessary. Rather than question the process, we should welcome the ease and expertise we’ve developed.
Third Person POV by Kay Keppler
The POV you use to write your novel helps shape the narrative and frame the story for maximum impact. Choosing which point of use to employ and being consistent with it are challenging. For clarity on how to use POV, dive into this post by novelist and editor, Kay Keppler.
Scenes: The Puzzle Pieces of Your Story by Tinthia Clemant
Writing a story is very similar to building a puzzle. And scenes are the puzzle pieces. Here are some tips to help you sort your puzzle pieces, I mean, scenes.
Craft Compelling Characters: Show the change in identity + belief by Beth Barany
This is an article is part of an occasional series on planning your novel. Our June course on planning your novel is happening now. You can still join us. I first published this article...
Perspective: Pointing the Way to Story by Kay Keppler
Part of craft is choosing from which perspective, or point of view, you tell your story. Your choices are first, second, or third person (limited or omniscient). Each has its strengths and drawbacks. Well, okay, second person has no strengths, only drawbacks, unless you’re writing how-to manuals. In that case, carry on. Fiction people, you have choices to make.
On Enneagrams for Writers by Carol Malone
We make them like us. We give them personalities with strengths and flaws. Sometimes we need to give them, “fatal” flaws. Having these fatal flaws cause conflict.
CRAFT: What does Author Convenience and Aristotle have to do with each other?
Authors have a job to do and they have to fool readers in order to do it. In good writing, the author seems to disappear and the reader gets lost in the story. It’s as if the story is telling itself. Yet author convenience, or author intrusion, breaks through the story veil and doesn’t let the reader get caught up in the story.
Being Prolific
Hello, wonderful readers. It’s my turn once again to speak about what’s on my mind about the writing craft and the secret to productivity. To me, being prolific is like a runaway train that still knows where the station is. It may be going at breakneck speed but it’s on a set of rails and it knows where to stop.
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