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're writing a story, it's obviously important to make sure your Protagonist is well motivated. However, if your Antagonist…
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…
If you are writing in the fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal, or sci-fi genres, you're going to be writing scenarios for…
Tracking your character's emotional state is an essential part of continuity when it comes to your character's arc. When your…
A "time-lock" is best to use in your story when you've established who your Protagonist and Antagonist are, you've pitted…