Sometimes writers get too creative for their own good. Such is the case when they think about all the stories their characters – major and minor – could experience.While the writer’s understan…
Plotting Your Story: Falling Action and Denouement
Though your story may have reached its climax, the tale isn’t over yet. The author also should briefly detail the effects that the climax has on the characters. This section of the story is kn…
In every story, there comes a turning point or an ultimate moment in which the situation has become so intolerable that the main character must take a decisive step and emerge victorious. This scen…
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.” – Stephen King“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitel…
• Vividness• Diction• Narrative drive • Fragments for rhetorical effect• Word choice• Eyeball kick• Freeze-frame• Mimic sounds• Physical gestures to show not tell