Motivating Villains And Why It Makes Your Story Better
When you're writing a story, it's obviously important to make sure your Protagonist is well motivated. However, if your Antagonist…
How To Write Character Flaws And Why It Improves Your Story
When you write a story, quite often you'll find that you will write your Protagonist to be an essentially "perfect"…
Top Reasons Your Story Needs Active Conflict In Every Scene
In most of these pieces of writing advice, I reference the conflict, because there is no story without conflict. So…
Reasons Why Aaron Sorkin’s Dialogue Is So Amazing And How You Can Do It Yourself
I'm going to be writing about the dialogue style of the writer Aaron Sorkin. If you're unfamiliar with his work,…
How To Write So Your Audience Is Emotionally Connected To Your Story
Causing your audience to have a strong emotional connection to your story, even to the point of being moved to…
How To Stop Coincidences From Ruining Your Story
A coincidence in a story is an event that happens that has no foreshadowing and no intent, it wasn't something…
How To Arc Characters, Not Break Them
When you are writing your story, you might find that you get to a point where you realise it would…
How To Write Distinct Characters
On The Table Read, author JJ Barnes shares her creative writing advice for how to write distinct characters and why…
How To Create A Feeling Of Suspense In Your Story
If you are writing a scary story, or a thriller or a mystery, suspense is one of the key things…
How To Make An Unbelievable Story Believable
If you are writing in the fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal, or sci-fi genres, you're going to be writing scenarios for…
How To Track Your Character’s Emotional State
Tracking your character's emotional state is an essential part of continuity when it comes to your character's arc. When your…
How To Use Time-Locks To Write High Stakes Drama
A "time-lock" is best to use in your story when you've established who your Protagonist and Antagonist are, you've pitted…
How To Find Your Plot
On Instagram we were asked a question by @Books_To_Life, who wanted to know what you can do if you start…
Making Sure You Don’t Have A Passive Protagonist
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes writes about why having a passive Protagonist in your story is a problem, and…
How To Create A Lie Your Protagonist Believes And Follows Until They Learn The Truth
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes explores how to write a lie that your Protagonist believes, and a story that…