Beginnings are difficult. You need to set-up a story, hook your reader, give a lot of information but not too much information, and make it entertaining, intriguing, or suspenseful all in one go. Beginnings are hard. But they’re also easy, because they are the beginning.
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Am an amateur writer who wants to one day publish books for the world to enjoy. I think there are a number of people out there like me, and I'm looking to build a community of writers. I read almost anything as long as it interests me, but I mainly right in the fantasy and sci-fi genres.
Point #3: The Care Package
Even if you haven’t thought of it yet, or even if it doesn’t matter to the overall plot, your character has a past. And in that past is something important to that character.
Session 4: Want to Develop Your Characters? Interview Them.
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So, I had this scene in my head. It was a great scene, an important scene, the scene I had been working up to since the start of the book. And then… well, the scene never materialised. Because what I needed the main character to do was, at that…
Not Every Character Needs To Be Relatable
There are plenty of vile characters people latch on to, people who are not vile themselves. And that is because people understand that character, even if in reality, if they were to meet, they’d never agree with them.
Point #2: The Dramatic Question
Knowing what our dramatic question is – what the main driver of our conflict is – can help us focus the narrative in the direction we need it to go.
Just Get The Damn Words Down
You have a story to tell. Go and tell it. Don’t use excuses. Don’t find reasons to not write. Don’t let writer’s block have a second of your time. Go and write. Write fast. Write badly. Make it incoherent. You can fix it all in revision.
Point #1: The Opening Image
The Opening Scene/Image is the first thing the reader “sees”. More specifically, it’s the first thing you want the reader to see. It is what you want them to take away from the rest of the story, even subconsciously.
The 30-Point Narrative Structure: An Introduction
As someone who is always trying to find a more productive way to plan the story, to make sense of the mess that is in my head, narrative structures are a happy place for me.
Are There Things You’re Not Allowed to Write About?
Are there things you cannot write about? No.
So, that’s the end of this, right? Well, not really.
Session 0: Let’s Create a Story
Originally posted on Professional Amateur Writers:
Good day to you all, fellow writers (yes, it is formal; no, it will not be a habit). So, it has come to my attention that maybe jumping into writing your story’s main plot in Session One isn’t for everyone. For some, it works, but that’s because those writers…
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