Point of View: Third Person Limited
Picking a perspective is like choosing your weapon before a gladiator match; it limits and defines your style of approach. In this […]
Point of View: Third Person Omniscient
Third person omniscient POV offers writers the rare power to see into every mind and move freely across the landscape of a […]
Unlock Your Story’s Theme: Crafting Stories That Matter
Theme is a way of making a series of events which are personal to the protagonist universally relatable to a wide audience. […]
What is Rising Action? How to Elevate Your Plot
Rising action refers to the series of events that lead from a story’s inciting incident to the climax. In this article, we […]
What is an Inciting Incident? The Story Moment That Changes Everything
With storytelling, if your reader isn’t engaged within the first few chapters, you run the risk of losing their attention. So, what […]
Falling Action: The Bridge Between Climax and Resolution
What happens after a story’s climactic moment? What comes after the protagonist wins the girl, or defeats the bully, or triumphs over […]
Exponential Growth
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”– Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist Whether it is […]
How to Write a Compelling Climax
The climax. This is the moment your reader has been waiting for. They’ve spent hours immersed in your story, falling in love […]
Story: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Story is always a journey of self-discovery “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Embarking on a creative endeavor, especially […]
We Are All Connected
“No one is free until we are all free.”– Martin Luther King Jr. It is human nature to search for absolutes. Joe is a […]
Exploring the Dilemma
At the heart of every story lies a dilemma. It is not a question of whether or not your protagonist has a […]
Never Give Up
I was a half decent 800-meter runner in high school, not great, but I ran with a lot of heart, and sometimes […]
The Price of Joy is Grief
As human beings we tend to seek positive experiences, but as writers and storytellers we understand that the purpose of story is […]
A Spark of Madness: The Secret Ingredient to Creative Brilliance
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams In the realm of creativity, there’s a […]
Getting Notes – Ten Things to Consider
I got an email this morning from one of my students who just received a pile of notes on her work-in-progress and […]
Why Writers Should Embrace Doubt
Doubt exists in each of us much of the time. We are unsure about our futures, our relationships, our new tile in the bathroom, our car insurance, etc. Doubt is the cradle of conflict, both internal and external. In the heart of every character lives a dilemma. As you become curious about that dilemma, it will lead you to what is universal in your story.
Transformation
Story is the most powerful way we have to express ideas. We can actually see the journey that a human being takes […]
