Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting, Setting

By Teri Dawn Smith, on September 4th, 2009
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

By Lynn Dean, on August 5th, 2009
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 [...]