On The Table Read, "The Best Book Reader Magazine in UK", JJ Barnes writes about the writing in The US…
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk Naturally you want your story to be interesting. If your story is boring, you'll lose…
JJ Barnes explores how Agatha Harkness in WandaVision is given the perfect villain turn, and writing techniques to recreate the…
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk Some stories need a scary character. Thrillers, mysteries and horrors all need a bad guy…
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…
Your characters will all have different qualities. You need to give your characters distinct personalities to ensure they are clean…
On The Table Read, "The Best Book Reader Magazine in the UK", author JJ Barnes describes what a Protagonist Partnership…
To make sure your audience is fully invested in seeing if your Protagonist gets what they want, you need to…
Your Protagonist is the main person in your story. You will spend the majority of the time riding on their…
The pace of your story is how quickly it moves from one plot point to another, and is controlled by…
Dystopian fiction deals with a future where the world has been changed, and not for the better. They are entertaining…
The problem with henchmen is that if you're writing a hero who is intended to be morally pure, you can't…
The best stories take characters on a journey. They are changed and shaped by the events in your story and…
The belief that in a Universe so huge, so vast and undiscovered, that some huge power would choose to change…