How to Create Chemistry with Your Readers What is that mysterious tug that draws you near someone for no apparent reason? Some call that immediate and intense emotional attraction experienced by two people chemistry. Is it possible to create the same sort of chemistry with your readers as the emotional connection you feel with that someone special who occupies all your thoughts and free time? Creating characters who are compatible with your readers through similarities in lifestyles and values …
Craft and Writer
The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master offers guidance how to write a story with a plot with tips about the craft in the Plot Whisper sidebars and tips for the writer in Writer's Way sidebars. Craft and writer -- as important as craft is to writing a novel, memoir, screenply, so too is an understanding of the demands on you the writer as you write a story with a plot from beginning to end. Craft and Writer Writers who love the Plot Whisperer book are divided into …
Backstory Wounds & Writers
Backstory Wounds and Writers As a plot consultant for writers, I've been fascinated how a characters' backstory emotional wounds influence the plot of a novel, memoir, screenplay. I'm just as fascinated with backstory wounds & writers. As I write in Chapter 16 of The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories, backstory wounds are created in a character's backstory. Characters' Emotional Backstory Wounds Often something in her backstory caused …
How Not to Get Lost Writing the Middle of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
Writing the middle of a novel, memoir, screenplay gets a bad rap from writers. Granted, it's easy to get lost in the maze of subplots and secondary characters that people and populate the middle. Keeping track of where you've been and where you're going becomes challenging (which is where using the Plot Planner as a story board comes in handy). Following are 5 tips to keep in mind how not to get lost writing the middle of your novel, memoir, screenplay. Forge On Creating twists and turns in …
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Managing Drama in Your Story and Your Life
We experience drama in the stories we read and in our everyday lives. Chaos, struggle, anger, misunderstandings, miscommunications, betrayals and loss create page-turning fiction. Those same elements in our personal lives suck our creative energy and deplete us of the urge to write and create. Rather than spiral out of control and lose your way, learn how to create page-turning drama in your stories and foster peace in your life in managing drama in your story and your life. Dramatic …
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