If you are planning a series of books or films, then you need to write the first one in a…
If you are writing something absolutely devastating in your story, such as a heartbreak or death scene, it's natural as…
I've written before about how your Protagonist and your Antagonist both have to be motivated to go after what it…
If in your story you have a character that needs to learn a piece of information that is crucial to…
When you're writing dialogue in your story, try and make sure it reads like people actually speak, rather than reading…
Your character's back story is their history and life prior to your jumping in point for this story. I'm going…
If you're writing a book or script where there is risk or peril, and you want your audience to believe…
When you write a story, quite often you'll find that you will write your Protagonist to be an essentially "perfect"…
In most of these pieces of writing advice, I reference the conflict, because there is no story without conflict. So…
I'm going to be writing about the dialogue style of the writer Aaron Sorkin. If you're unfamiliar with his work,…
Causing your audience to have a strong emotional connection to your story, even to the point of being moved to…
A coincidence in a story is an event that happens that has no foreshadowing and no intent, it wasn't something…
When you are writing your story, you might find that you get to a point where you realise it would…
On The Table Read, author JJ Barnes shares her creative writing advice for how to write distinct characters and why…
If you are writing a scary story, or a thriller or a mystery, suspense is one of the key things…