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Plotting
 By Teri Dawn Smith, on February 12th, 2010Story Structure Structure in your story is like the frame of a house. It both holds it together and gives it shape. Sometimes we creative types don’t appreciate the word structure. We may view it as something to stifle our imagination. However, structure doesn’t need to bind you, and it can be an essential tool in creating [...] Characterization, Plotting
By Teri Dawn Smith, on December 11th, 2009Stories Start on the Brink of Change When you’re thinking about the characters for your story, choose ripe characters. Concoct a man who is on the brink of a choice. Or a woman who must make a moral decision, say between saving her job or exposing a lie. A ripe character stands on the precipice of [...] Pacing, Plotting
By Naomi Musch, on November 27th, 2009A Novel is More than a Beginning and an End Here are some novel facts: Most average novels run between 55,000-80,000 words. No matter how you hammer them on the page, that’s a lot of words. When, for the first time ever, [...] Characterization, Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting, Showing vs. Telling
By Teri Dawn Smith, on November 13th, 2009Creating Emotion in Writing Almost every writing class or craft book will tell you the same thing: fiction must create a compelling emotional experience. The problem is these teachers also let you know that if your character cries, the reader probably won’t. So how do you build this emotion? Simply writing highly emotional phrases such as her [...] Characterization, Goal, Motivation and Conflict, Plotting
By Teri Dawn Smith, on October 9th, 2009The Hero’s Outer Journey A compelling hero takes two journeys in a story. The outer journey follows the plot line. It includes the goal, motivation and conflict we’ve already discussed. It begins with his goal and the steps he takes to reach that goal. Make sure you make the goal a seemingly impossible objective. A desire [...] |
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