On The Table Read, JJ Barnes writes about pantsing and plotting, the difference between the to writing techniques, and the…
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes gives writing advice for how much description to use in your story to keep…
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…
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes gives writing advice about story structure in the film Die Hard and how we…
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes explores how to use the writing of others to inspire your own work.
To explain how and why you use Narrative Triplets in your writing, I am referencing the film Spider-Man Into The…
Most of the time when you go into reading a book or watching a film, there will be a person…
Taking your characters from the mundane to the magical, a technique used in most fantasy stories, when you take your…
I'm going to explain what the "Inciting Incident" is in your story, where to put it, what it's used for,…
If you're a writer you'll have heard the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist," and you might have a baseline familiarity with…
Narrative Triplets is a story tool that you can use to make you story progress and keep it interesting. When…
Viewer Gareth Shelley asked a question about how important a big vocabulary is when you want to write a book,…
When you're a writer, people will often tell you that they too want to write a book. They have ideas,…