Stories are all about putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. They are about giving their audiences new perspectives and opening their minds to the myriad of possibilities life throws at us. And as we have mentioned before, perspectives can be very powerful within the stories we tell. Write a scene from nature—but write it first…
This is a little trick I came up with *all by myself!* 😁 This is a technique to use if you’re a pantser like me, and you might have a lot of key scenes already written down, but the flow of the story seems a little clunky overall. Create or buy a set of blank…
If you’re a writer, or even someone who took one creative writing class on a whim back in college, you’ve no doubt heard the question arise at some point: are you a plotter, or a pantser? Even within creative communities we’ve found the need to split ourselves into categories, and the way that writers write…
A very unique take on the myth of King Arthur and the Round Table. Filled with fun, diverse characters and relationships–but maybe not the smoothest story line.
A brief opening to a short story / possible novella that I’ve been keeping on the back burner for a while. As of this post, the story is nearly forty pages long, and I’m estimating that I’m about two thirds of the way done. What I have here is very very rough, and is definitely subject to change as the story shapes itself a little more. Keep an eye out for “Section II” somewhere down the line…