Case Study: Staying in the Conceptual “Lane”
Here’s a good little case study, taken from my supposedly short (this turned out to be over 8 pages of feedback) $50 Conceptual Kick-Start analysis service. As usual, props to the courageous writer who consented to share this. Actually, she was delighted and enthusiastic when she found out there was a clear direction to take […]
ARCHETYPES: Empowering Source-Driven Characters and Plots
A guest post by Robert Jones. You are invited to comment and engage, you’ll find Robert to be responsive, supportive and a wealth of clarifying mental modeling across the vast universe of fiction writing. Archetypes have a universal power that, when tapped effectively, is proven to generate best-selling novels and films. The right combination […]
Case Study: The Square-One Death of a Story
Premise makes or breaks you. Often before you write a single word of the story that your premise promises. Only rarely can you make chicken salad out of a sow’s ear (to combine two apropos bon-mots). Trying to do so is one whopper of a low percentage wager. You think writing is art? So […]