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 the narrator's voice in different stories, and how to replicate that style with confidence in your own…
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 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…
Your story follows your Protagonist on a journey to achieve a story goal, and your Antagonist trying to stop them.…
On The Table Read, "The Best Book Reader Magazine in the UK", author JJ Barnes describes what a Protagonist Partnership…
When you start your story, you will most likely put in an emotional support system around your Protagonist. You give…
To make sure your audience is fully invested in seeing if your Protagonist gets what they want, you need to…
Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they'll finish this story, then trust you…
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…
2021 can be the year of your story. The year you finally get to write "The End." And I can…
The problem with henchmen is that if you're writing a hero who is intended to be morally pure, you can't…