{"id":28086,"date":"2024-02-19T03:39:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=28086"},"modified":"2024-02-23T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T23:14:25","slug":"collaborative-writing-story-success-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/collaborative-writing-story-success-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Writing, Story Success Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Blog-Images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28087\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Blog-Images.jpg\" alt=\"Gray background with people writing around a table for collaborative writing in a story success clinic session. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Blog-Images.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Blog-Images-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-28089\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gray background with navy blue quote speech bubble featuring a quote from collaborative writing\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Episode-85-Instagram-Images.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Collaborative Writing, Story Success Clinic &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 85<\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo conflict is when it&#8217;s between two very difficult choices that look bad, that feel bad, that are bad, that imply emotional or psychological pain, or of course, physical pain or death. Or conflict can also be between two very good things, but you just can&#8217;t have one or the other.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the latest How To Write the Future episode, host Beth Barany does a Story Success Clinic session with Wattpad and science fiction writer, Annika K.E. Morgan. Together they discuss writing conflict into scenes and the benefits of collaborative writing. Beth also shares how you can sign up to have your very own Story Success clinic session.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms The podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/85-collaborative-writing-story-success-clinic\/id1641025914?i=1000645838735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xNDQ4MjEyOA?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjYrNSbpreEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/14482128-85-collaborative-writing-story-success-clinic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0Yb9Nw0fZjQuykj14nytXH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2F14482128-85-collaborative-writing-story-success-clinic.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/aadc749a-5d9b-44ad-9591-5b784cfd45dc\/how-to-write-the-future-85-collaborative-writing-story-success-clinic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DtJ_2f24Omk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtJ_2f24Omk?si=gv68e8kcIzWzIIiD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT <strong>Annika K.E. Morgan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28123 size-medium\" title=\"Annika K.E. Morgan\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"Annika K.E. Morgan\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-621x1024.jpg 621w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-768x1266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-932x1536.jpg 932w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-1242x2048.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-640x1055.jpg 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Annika-K-E-Morgan-IMG_20230301_120049-copy-scaled.jpg 1553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a>A freelance book designer, Annika K.E. Morgan is a former teenage bookworm-storywriter who decades later rediscovered the joy of writing on the Internet. So she dusted off her old papers and started typing online. Currently writing a sci-fi trilogy and collaborating on a sci-fi chronicle, both available as ongoing serials on Wattpad under the usernames @Kemorgan65 and @-NikaRave- Also known as Annika Ravenrock on Ream.<\/p>\n<p>Wattpad userpage @kemorgan65: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/user\/kemorgan65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/user\/kemorgan65<\/a><br \/>\nWattpad collaboration userpage @-NikaRave- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/user\/-NikaRave-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/user\/-NikaRave-<\/a><br \/>\nInkitt collaboration userpage @NikaRave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inkitt.com\/NikaRave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.inkitt.com\/NikaRave<\/a><br \/>\nReam collaboration userpage @AnnikaRavenrock <a href=\"https:\/\/reamstories.com\/annikaravenrock\/public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/reamstories.com\/annikaravenrock\/public<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>RESOURCES\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The *How To Write The Future* podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do figure what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for Episode 85 Collaborative Writing, Story Success Clinic\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey, everyone. Welcome to How to Write the Future podcast. I&#8217;m your host, Beth Barany, an award-winning novelist, science fiction and fantasy novelist, and a writing teacher and creativity coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for people who want to create stories to envision what could be possible, because when we envision what is possible through our fiction, we actually help people create that in their lives, emotionally, and also psychologically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fiction is so powerful.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So, every once in a while, I do these Story Success Clinics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just a quick note &#8211; this Story Success Clinic, is audio only. So for those of you listening on YouTube, just want to let you know. There is no visual for the episode today because the author asked to remain off-camera. So, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today I have a science fiction\/ fantasy author with me here, Annika, and I&#8217;m going to introduce you, Annika, and then, we&#8217;ll dive in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Annika, welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, here is Annika K. E. Morgan. Deep in the sunny Caribbean tourist destination, Jamaica, Annika K. E. Morgan pursues her childhood dream of becoming a published author. With the support of a loving husband and daughter, a couple of cats, and a yard full of dogs, she spends her free time focused on completing Her unfinished science fiction and fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You are an active writer on Wattpad. Is that right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. That&#8217;s correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me qualify that. I&#8217;m supposed to be an active writer on Wattpad, but I&#8217;m not on my own profile. I am active. In a collaborative profile on Wattpad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Very interesting. So one of the things you let me know ahead of time is that you&#8217;re working on a really big collaborative project. So I thought we would start off so people can understand because we&#8217;re always curious. I know as a writer, I&#8217;m always curious about other writers creative processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, one of the questions I ask when people sign up for the Story Success Clinic is what&#8217;s working well? What&#8217;s already successful for you? And can you share us a few things? What is already working well for you as a writer?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a writer. Well, one thing that I&#8217;ve noticed for me, I enjoy the collaborative process. I really do. I was introduced to it through a reader of my story, that I want to talk about trilogy, my sci-fi trilogy, who helped me to get through a section that I had no plans for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, he helped me create scenes and I edited and rewrote them and I was able to get through that section and I found that I really enjoy that. Now I&#8217;m also collaborating on a joint story on my collaborative account. And that is going through second book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second book is almost finished. We only have a few chapters left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I really enjoy that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s so great. Well, I just want to say, to be able to collaborate so closely is a certain kind of writer, a certain kind of personality when that is a process that really works for you. I really admire that. It&#8217;s not something that I&#8217;m able to do like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, and I find it may have something to do with, I&#8217;m a details person. My collaborator a tree, a forest person. So it really syncs very well. He sees the big picture, I don&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ah, okay. Got it. Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I see the details. And I think that has a lot to do with why we work so well together, and we&#8217;ve never met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ve never spoken. We met via Wattpad, Everything has been, via messaging and writing the docs and so on, but we&#8217;ve never met. So, it has been, yeah, one of the most enjoyable processes I&#8217;ve been through for the past few years. Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s so great. Oh, wonderful. So you&#8217;re writing a science fiction trilogy, collaboratively, and when I asked what were some of your challenges, there&#8217;s a few things that you mentioned, one I noticed is about conflict. And do I got that right, bring making sure every scene has conflict?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, a correction. The Science Fiction trilogy is my story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay. Thank you for that clarification. So today we&#8217;re going to talk about your story, not the collaborative story. Okay, good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exactly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so, yeah, you mentioned here in the notes that you keep forgetting to ramp up the tension or the angst and that you realize you need to throw in more obstacles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I find I prefer to get through the conflict. I&#8217;m not a complex person. I&#8217;m realizing that where I&#8217;m at to keep the interest, I need to add the conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And i just realized I have to remind myself of that because I&#8217;m just trying to complete an issue in the scene, wrap it up, get back to Earth because right now we&#8217;re on the moon, and then get to the final scene, basically, so I&#8217;m just trying to get to the end, Yeah, I can&#8217;t just go there. I have things happening on the way, you know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I have to remind myself of that, at this stage, there is some conflict between my main character and his love interest, who is from another Earth because she has been appointed queen, so protocol is that she cannot be involved in a intimate relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And they are already approaching that. Well, they have approached that situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And trying to reconcile that, trying to find a way to continue with their relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are already soulmates, so it&#8217;s not like they can just go separate ways. He&#8217;s already made a promise that he&#8217;s not going to abandon her, but he doesn&#8217;t know why he says he doesn&#8217;t want to abandon her again, which is alluding to a previous life, previous lives. He could allude to that his father abandoned his family too. So there&#8217;s something in him that&#8217;s driving him as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorry to interrupt you, but just to understand the craft aspect is the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scene written from his perspective, not her perspective?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That scene, his scenes are written from his perspective. Yes, it depends on which scenes he is in. Any scene that he is in, usually, it&#8217;s from his perspective, yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, but she is in the scene too, the queen?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, she&#8217;s in the scene as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what is the conflict? The conflict in the moment is technically they&#8217;re not supposed to be together because she&#8217;s the queen and he&#8217;s just an ordinary person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, is there any stakes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meaning, if they get discovered together, what might happen?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They&#8217;re already been discovered together and were interrupted. So Danny is the main character, Mikmi is the queen, and the guide is Selina, Daniel approaches Selena, the guide with the intent of asking for permission to propose to Mikmi. That is when Selena tells him, that&#8217;s not allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if they pursue their relationship, then they might have to intervene, equivalent to the intervention, a mind force intervention to stop their feelings. And he&#8217;s really angry about that implication that yeah, threat, call it threat, that might be done to him and her as well if it has to be done to keep them apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But he has already been appointed the post of shield to the queen. So it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re going to be apart, it&#8217;s just that they cannot be together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Got it. So if he is caught with her again, he could lose his memories about her or his feelings. So he&#8217;s no longer, yeah, in love with her and she also would lose her feelings for him, that she is no longer in love with him. So those are the stakes. They could forget about their love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s pretty good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so what does Danny think and feel about that? is he willing to risk that to be with her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He not accept that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s not something he&#8217;s willing to accept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, accept which part? Because the other people\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To lose his feelings for her.a memory wipe of their feelings or something like that. He doesn&#8217;t accept that at all. No way, he says<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good. Yes. And so he&#8217;s willing to risk that though, because if they&#8217;re caught again, that could happen. Or that will happen, right? He&#8217;s been told, you will receive the memory wipe. You will forget about your love. And he says I don&#8217;t care. I want to be with her anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It hasn&#8217;t been said in a way that it&#8217;s fixed in stone because the guide is also in service of the Queen. And I don&#8217;t think she can convince Mikmi to do that. But then again, Danny isn&#8217;t sure how much Mikmi will stick to the rules. She has recently recovered her memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She had amnesia before. So they had already developed a relationship. So she&#8217;s recovered her memory, She accepted to be appointed queen because their planet they believe their queen is dead, the previous one. She was supposed to replace her anyway, But they believe they&#8217;re dead From a disaster. It&#8217;s a long complex story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, so, she had taken on the role; she would take on that assignment. She is now Queen, but she is not on her planet. She&#8217;s on our planet, She&#8217;s on our Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Earth&#8217;s moon at the moment on assignment, as it were.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when they go back, she&#8217;s supposed to pick up her role as Queen there, but she&#8217;s been assigned the title already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s a lot of things, and so for a scene to work, we need conflict. There absolutely has to be conflict. But the conflict can be internal. It doesn&#8217;t have to be external. So if Danny is your point of view character, and he wonders whether or not the Queen, Mikmi, would risk her own memories for the relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for there to be conflict, you can ask yourself: what is at stake?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we do this thing, and we might lose our memory about how we love each other, that&#8217;s high stakes. If we&#8217;re not together as a couple, then we are in pain because right, we&#8217;re, we&#8217;re suffering because we&#8217;re not together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So conflict is when it&#8217;s between two very difficult choices that look bad, that feel bad, that are bad, that imply emotional or psychological pain, or of course, physical pain or death. Or conflict can also be between two very good things, but you just can&#8217;t have one or the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in this scene that you&#8217;re talking about, in this moment in their life, they&#8217;re between either not getting to be a couple, even though in their hearts they are one, or being a couple and then perhaps losing it, losing the memory of their love, which would be maybe worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s always a fate worse than death, which is very intense when you lose something that you value, or if you lose a loved one. That&#8217;s the one you value. They call it a fate worse than death and that kind of conflict can be the pinnacle conflict of your story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can be the worst thing that could happen would be if these two lovers forgot about each other, right? The reader would go, right? It would break everyone&#8217;s heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you can play that up and have Danny really think about that and have real consequences. What would he do? What would he say? What decision would he make?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he realizes this, he has to decide and do something. What can he do Is he going to risk everything and to be together? Or is he going to say, I would rather you remember me and love me, even if we cannot be together, even though it pains me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He&#8217;s more likely to go with the second option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the moment, they haven&#8217;t had their discussion yet. That is what I&#8217;m prepping for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far, his thought process has been: no way he&#8217;s agreeing. And he&#8217;s expecting that she would not agree as well. We don&#8217;t know yet. In his mind, he would stay by her side, and if he can manage to keep the distance because he has the post of her Shield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right. So that&#8217;s a very difficult decision to make, but that would also show character. You asked me what might be unique about him? And what might be unique about him is this strength of character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that he would in a sense sacrifice being together, so the love that exists between them can live in their memories. And someone like that it&#8217;s a selfless thing and it makes somebody extraordinary when they are willing to set aside their own happiness for another person&#8217;s happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people see that as extraordinary. Because most people just operate. Yeah, on their own, like, oh, I just want to be happy. I don&#8217;t care what others think. But when we care what others think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don&#8217;t remember who, or where the quote came from. It was some literary. It&#8217;s better to have lived and loved than to never have loved at all. Something like that. Loved and lost than never having loved at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. Yes. And I think this is the theme that you are playing with and it&#8217;s very powerful, right? It has this millennia resonance. It might&#8217;ve even been Shakespeare who said that because it&#8217;s such a powerful saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It feels like you&#8217;re working with this very powerful theme. Do you think so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the fact that it&#8217;s still a dilemma like you as the author are trying to figure it out, also shows me that it&#8217;s a deep theme that doesn&#8217;t have an easy answer, which is really wonderful. We don&#8217;t want the biggest conflict in our story to be an easy, to have an easy answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s why it is the biggest emotional conflict of your story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. Yeah. Good. So to recap it sounds like you&#8217;re the kind of writer who really thrives on collaboration, which was a bit of a surprise for you. From the notes you shared with me and everything, it&#8217;s like, and even getting ready for today&#8217;s, Story Success Clinic, you were very collaborative with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re sharing things with me. You&#8217;re working it out, right? You told me What your conflict was or your questions were like last week, and then you wrote me today. Oh, no, things have changed. I worked through this. Now I have this, which tells me you&#8217;re somebody who works really well in collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So from a coaching perspective, I would say, well, from whatever you can do to continue collaborative partnerships in all the phases of your writing will probably really help you feel supported and help you move forward as you continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that would really help you. And it sounds like you have a lot of resources here around collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is that right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, the person I collaborate with on the other story, sometimes I bounce ideas off of him, but he&#8217;s the kind of person is that: it&#8217;s your story, right? I&#8217;ll throw out some suggestions, but it&#8217;s your story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right. Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So he doesn&#8217;t want to tell me what I should be doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right. Is that hard or easy for you? Do you wish someone could help you make those decisions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes I do, yes. Sometimes I don&#8217;t. I just to bounce off and stir up the juices, something stirs up from the bottom that I haven&#8217;t thought of, kind of thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You mentioned also that you have critique partners that you work with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes. I just started back up in two different clubs in WattPad. I&#8217;m getting a critique partners. I&#8217;m critiquing their work and they&#8217;re critiquing mine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve had previously another partner who started from the beginning and has reached into part three, but then she has taken a hiatus from the club and therefore I haven&#8217;t been able to get the rest of the story critiqued, which is why I put my new partners in the kind of awkward position of starting at part three, because I don&#8217;t want them to end before I&#8217;ve dealt with that section, and their stories aren&#8217;t as long as mine yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s usually chapter by chapter exchange. So, yeah, and that is helpful, too. I&#8217;m getting some good feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good. Good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they haven&#8217;t reached the point of where I&#8217;m at currently, because I&#8217;m quite far into &#8211; I&#8217;m almost at 400,000 words actually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh my goodness, that&#8217;s like three, that&#8217;s four books, or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of next steps for you as we start to wrap this up &#8211; Well, first, let me back up. Do you feel like the questions that you brought here today, do you feel like you work through them a little bit?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A little more focus Some elements of focus that I can address during their discussion and internal musings of Danny. So that&#8217;s helpful<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay. Yeah. Did we answer the question also about what might make Danny unique? He&#8217;s not just an ordinary person. He&#8217;s actually quite extraordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, that, I haven&#8217;t thought of strength of character. That&#8217;s a useful one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There might be something more too as well, because the way the question was raised in reference to the beginning of the story, I believe. And my only answer for that was that they were soulmates, but they were living on two different planets. So why was he picked? Because he was picked to find her when she crash-landed on this earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So does he have a skill set, a capability, a natural ability, something he was born with? What made him the person for the job?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That I can&#8217;t really answer, except that he&#8217;s the soulmate. They would not have met if she had not come to this earth by accident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so for story-building purposes, for world-building purposes, you could come up with a reason that exists inside of the culture how that person knew, or it could be that that person has a skill, the guide has a skill in finding people who are connected to other people. Maybe it&#8217;s a psychic ability, or maybe, this person was born with that, or maybe they were trained. it&#8217;s magic, maybe it&#8217;s science. So you can decide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay. Yeah, she is a more complex person than that. She&#8217;s not really human. She&#8217;s taken on human form, but she&#8217;s not human. Her source is more like an energy being that floats around in the atmosphere. That&#8217;s her original ancestry, you can call it, but she&#8217;s taken on human form to serve the queen. so she served the queen in appointing the new queen. And now she&#8217;s serving Mikmi, the new queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And maybe for her, it&#8217;s natural, like you and I, we can see the color red, but maybe she can see energetic lines of connection between people because that&#8217;s natural to her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, Annika, we&#8217;ve come to the close of today&#8217;s Story Success clinic, and if you have any pieces of advice that you would like to give to writers who are starting out or who maybe want to write collaboratively or even write on Wattpad like you do, what are one or two things that you would encourage other authors about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, Wattpad has a lot of different communities here. Some authors come there and say, there are too many young people you know, teenagers writing. There are serious writers there. You can find good clubs there with getting good feedback. I can say, without any hesitation, that my story and I started my story when I was 13 years old, 1978, that&#8217;s where I got my first idea. Fruits has been around for a long time, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this version, I started in 2016. It would not have reached to where it is now, without the feedback that I got through Wattpad. The community, the readers, I mean, Getting assistance from readers that really have some good feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or you join a book club within Wattpad and find a good critique partner. I mean, you can&#8217;t imagine where that can take you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s so wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can consult and you get good feedback and you don&#8217;t have to pay them. You exchange, So, you can even find editors there. A lot of authors on Wattpad have published after developing this story on Wattpad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s great. It&#8217;s a collaborative platform, it sounds like, with readers, with other writers, and it sounds like people really enjoy that process. It&#8217;s a great place to go if that&#8217;s something that attracts you. That&#8217;s great. Oh, wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, Annika, I wish you the best of luck on your amazing epic, and thank you so much for being a guest today on the Story Success Clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yeah, thank you so much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANNIKA K.E. MORGAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for having me. Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BETH BARANY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s it for this week. Thanks for listening. If you would like to sign up for a Story Success Clinic, just head on over to How to Write The Future dot com and follow the prompts. 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