This is the last week of my writing tip series. I may do this again in the future with more writing tips if you all are interested. However, for now I wanted to stop at five. For the final writing tip I wanted to talk about, writing consistently. Simply put, the more you write the […]
Today we are going to be talking about the beginning of stories and the “Inciting Incident”. The inciting incident is the event that truly starts your story. Examples of famous inciting incidents include, Darth Vader captures Princess Leia, Indiana Jones learns about the Ark, Harry gets dropped off at the Dursleys. Your inciting incident doesn’t
Today we will talk about lore, and lore dumps. Every story has lore whether its, a characters backstory, a unique creature you created for this world, how magic works, or something else entirely. In every story lore is essential. It helps the reader to understand the world and the characters within it. However, one pitfall
This week’s tip is, write everything. In the words of Terry Pratchet, “Your first draft is you telling yourself the story, no one else has to see it.” In other words for your first draft write every idea you have when writing your first draft, regardless of how absurd that idea may seem at first.
This past week I started teaching a Teen Creative Writing Workshop in my local area, which gave me the idea to do a short series including ten writing tips. For the next ten weeks I will post a tip along with a short explanation. Make sure you check the end of each post, for I
