Many writers spend a lot of time crafting the critically important beginning of a story. Did you know the ending is just as important?
Category: How To’s
Is There a Time and Place in Your Story?
Set the time and place in your story. It makes a big difference, like the difference between Sleeping Beauty’s castle and Windsor castle.
As the Plot Turns: Re-Visioning Your Story
Lesson 5 As the plot turns, so turns your story. Pantser or Planner, HOW you choose to write the story MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. Fine tune the plot in the second draft, the revision. The first draft is to get the story down on paper. It’s the revisioning that matters. This is where you take that… Continue reading As the Plot Turns: Re-Visioning Your Story
Do Your Characters Play Well With Others?
Do your characters play well with others? While writing the first draft you can allow your characters to ‘’take over’ your story, but not so in revision.
Are Your Character’s Goals Golden?
The second installment
in Lynette M. Burrows’s “Re-vision Your Story,” discusses how to make your character’s goals golden.