How to kill your hero
SPOILER ALERT: The following includes spoilers for City ofAngels(Sparks), Message in a Bottle (Sparks), A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), The Brothers Bloom (movie), and Stranger Than Fiction (movie). –...
View ArticleYour plot is useless without this
- A hundred strangers cling to one another as their runaway train thunders toward a dead end. Across town, the only woman you’ve ever loved is strapped to a time bomb. Save her, keep your heart from...
View ArticleHow to fix your sagging plot
Does your story sag in the middle? Do you feel like you’re plowing through boring scenes just to get to the cool ones? Is your protagonist wandering around aimlessly, looking for the climax? It’s not...
View Article9 Storytelling Blunders That Make You Look like an Amateur
You may be a grammatical black belt, leaping big vocabulary words in a single bound. But take care: you could still be making elementary mistakes that’ll leave your readers cringing, eye-rolling, and...
View Article3 Ways to Handle Subplots
Erin asks: I was recently watching a movie (The Huntsman Winter’s War) with my sister. My sister and I didn’t enjoy it for multiple reasons. One of them was that fact that the whole plot is filled with...
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