Life is conflict. Story is conflict. One of the reasons we seek out great stories is for help dealing with conflict in our lives. We learn lessons from our characters, […]
Withholding information just to mess with your readers doesn’t work. If the character would know something, the reader should know it, particularly if you write in first person or deep-dive […]
One aspect of character that can be hard to pin down is: How funny should they be? Most of us aren’t comedy writers. We write fantasy or science fiction or […]
This month in Fictorians, we’re discussing things we love and things we hate about stories. What works and what doesn’t? Check out the excellent posts. As authors, we make lots […]
This month in Fictorians, we’re discussing Stranger than Fiction. Check out all the great stories people are sharing that would never work in a story because they would break readers’ […]
This month in the Fictorians, we are sharing the advice we would give ourselves if we could go back in time and talk with ourselves as new writers. This post […]
This post was released on the Fictorians blog on April 8th. Read it there, along with lots of other great posts in April dealing with characters, perspective, and how they […]
This post is also featured on the Fictorians. Just this month, NYT Bestselling Author, and well-known author mentor David Farland wrote an excellent post titled “A Question of Balance”. He opens by […]
This post is part of this month’s Fictorians theme on games and how they relate to writing. Find it here. This month we’ve discussed great games that inspire, games that […]
This month, the Fictorians are reviewing movies, and discussing lessons we can learn from each of them to help improve our own storytelling. Check out the posts here. As part […]