On YouTube, JJ Barnes talks about perseverance, why perseverant characters will improve the quality of your story, and her writing…
On YouTube, JJ Barnes shares a video about wicked step-mother characters, what they can do for your story, and how…
On YouTube, JJ Barnes talks you through why you shouldn't drift off plot and how to keep you story focused…
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes explores the ways in which story telling is a specific skill, and why asking…
On The Table Read on YouTube, JJ Barnes explores techniques you can use to write humans that are scarier than…
On YouTube, JJ Barnes talks about the writing of Dwight Schrute in The US Office, and what we can learn…
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes offers writing advice for authors, suggestions questions you need to ask in the development…
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 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 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…