Subscribe

Log In or Register to Comment

Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting, Setting

Writing Lesson 2 – Where In the World?

Planning Your Story’s Setting

The Importance of Your Story World

If you’ve finished Lesson 1 and discovered the goal, motivation and conflict for your story, you need to think about the setting.  The setting plays an important role in the story since it anchors the reader in a time and place and provides a foundation.

Several items [...]

Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting

Writing Lesson 1 – What’s the Big Idea?

Have you ever heard of the shortest stories never written?

A Woodcutter’s Life by Tim Burr

Pirate Gold by Barry D. Treasure

Snakes in Tall Grass by Leva Malone

My Struggle with Insomnia by Anita Knapp

Pitfalls of Procrastination by Ida Dunmore

You get the idea…once you get past the title, there’s not much to say.

How do you come up with [...]