A search of the internet for advice on how write better fiction will lead to millions of links to articles about a wide variety of techniques that vary from learning the minutia of grammar to firming up your overarching theme. One technique, however, is both insanely simple and incredibly effective. It’s called the motivation-reaction unit, […]
Where Does the Story Start?
Every story has a beginning, middle and end. As anyone who has attempted to write a story knows, however, it’s not as simple as starting at the beginning and writing through the middle until you reach the end. In truth, determining the proper place to start the story is one of the author’s hardest tasks. […]
Make each scene a little story
Here’s my writing advice for the day: make each scene a little story. What we want is a series of pearls that create a lovely necklace. A story, and therefore your scene, has a motivated protagonist (the point-of-view character), conflict, and some kind of resolution. Of course, it needs to have a hook at the […]