Tagged: Writing

Examining ways to reveal more about more about your characters without telling the reader their attributes. 5

Revealing Character

There are many ways to reveal information about your characters when writing a story. Today, I am discussing five levels that reveal information about your protagonist or antagonist’s character, the internal attributes that are distinctive to a specific character in your...

Conflict resolutions that kill a story. 8

Pitfalls when Resolving Conflict in a Story

My mind has a way of connecting most things back to writing. I’ll ruminate over something for weeks and find connections to an idea all around me, in books, movies, and in life. Recently, I’ve found myself preoccupied with story...

Reflections on how the road to becoming a writer is not always a straight and obvious one. 8

The Path of Becoming a Writer

It’s interesting for me to look back at my life from the time I first fell in love with writing to the moment I began my career as a writer. Like many writers, I fell in love with writing at...

A guide to understanding the names of different story lengths and their word counts. 9

Story Length Guidelines

The art of storytelling has been around longer than the written word, and through the ages, names have been created to describe different story lengths. Even the addition of social media has changed the face of short stories. I believe...