What is a Static Character?
The characters we write in our stories play a central part in the audience’s engagement. Understanding your characters and why they do […]
How to Invoke Pathos in Your Writing
Pathos is a key aspect of any rhetorician’s approach to their oratory. If you are writing a speech in your novel or […]
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
Given our lack of omniscience in the land of the living, writing can offer us a liberating chance to experience such insight. […]
Unlock Your Story’s Theme
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?
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 the Inciting Incident?
With storytelling, if your reader isn’t engaged within the first few chapters, you run the risk of losing their attention. So, what […]
Your Writing Guide for Falling Action
What happens after a story’s climactic moment? What comes after the protagonist wins the girl, or defeats the bully, or triumphs over […]
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 […]
