Growing Your Craft with Writing Workshops
by Ara Grigorian Learning: A Life-Long Part of the Writer’s Journey Years ago, when I decided it was time to get serious about writing, I bought Writer’s Digest magazine, because Continue reading
Category: Fiction
Old Lessons to Grow Your Writing: Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
by Kimberly Peticolas Let me take you back to your high school English class. Don’t worry, the rest of high school you can continue to forget! Now if you will Continue reading
How to Grow Your Characters: Nothing But a Spark to Fully Realized People
This post first appeared Feb 14, 2017, for our Valentine’s Day special. However, I thought the lessons were worth repeating. Here’s to growing your characters from nothing, to well-developed “real” Continue reading
Spook: On the Psychology of Horror
by Seth Wagerman In 1973, Warner Bros. released what would become one of the highest-grossing films in history – the first in its genre to be nominated for Best Picture, Continue reading
A Hero in the Making: Crafting a kick-ass protagonist
by Megan Haskell A hero. Every story needs one. I don’t care if you’re writing horror or romance, fantasy or thriller, you can’t have a story if you don’t have Continue reading
5 Hot Tips for Creating Memorable Characters
by Karen Sue Walker As writers, we want our characters to come alive on the page as fully formed individuals who capture readers’ imaginations. What we don’t want to hear Continue reading
6 Hot Tips for Digging Out of the Saggy Middle
by Greta Boris I signed up for an on-line plotting course some years back and started happily typing away. I was excited about the beginning of my story and I knew, Continue reading
Story Development Technique: “The Whistles & Bells Test™”
by Jeff Lyons “The Whistles and Bells Test™” is a quick test you can carry out whenever you get the inspirational flash of a new story idea. It is a Continue reading
Story Structure: Just like an orange and sex. Really.
by Kristy Tate In a few days, I’ll be at the Foothill Ranch library comparing story structure to a piece of citrus fruit and sex. Like an orange, a story Continue reading
I Love to Plot, Part 3: The Play
by Michelle Knowlden A plot is about things that happen. A story is about people who behave. …from Roger Ebert’s Review of “House of Sand and Fog,” 26 December 2003 Continue reading