Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk Avengers If you have seen the Avengers films, then you'll be familiar with chief Bad-Guy,…
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk The Inciting Incident is the moment that starts your story. Before this moment, your character…
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk When you ask people how their time at school went, you're likely to get one…
Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they'll finish this story, then trust you…
I'll be exploring how making your characters suffer is important for keeping the conflict active, keeping your story entertaining, and…
When your audience comes to your story, whether reading or watching, they won't necessarily know what your story is about.…
Foreshadowing is the technique of hinting to your audience where your story is going, without actually telling them. It works…
If your book is too dialogue heavy, it can read like a script. You don't get to know the environment…
Sometimes as part of your story, you'll have information that needs to be delivered in order for the story to…
JJ Barnes writes about different styles of Antagonist and gives writing advice to use multiple Antagonists in one story. She…
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes has writing advice to create a story with multiple protagonists.
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes writes about the death of a mentor, what it does for character development, and…
Your first act is setting up what they want, the second act is where they start to pursue it, and…
Taking your characters from the mundane to the magical, a technique used in most fantasy stories, when you take your…