Story Structure Series: #6 — Wrapping Your Head Around the Mid-Point Milestone
The following is the 6th installment of our series on story structure. Prior posts are available under the Story Structure Series tab in the Categories menu. #6 – Wrapping Your Head Around the Mid-Point Milestone A funny thing happened on the way to the ending of the story. Everything changed. Right in the middle of […]
Story Structure Series: #5 — Part 2 of Your Story… The Response
The following is the 5th installment of our series on story structure. Prior posts are available under the Story Structure Series tab in the Categories menu. #5 — Part 2 of Your Story… The Response There’s no turning back now. You’ve opened a dramatic can of worms, and your hero is in the thick of […]
Story Structure Series: #4 – The Most Important Moment in Your Story: The First Plot Point
The following is the 4th installment of our series on story structure. Prior posts are available under the Story Structure Series tab in the Categories menu. #4 — The Most Important Moment in Your Story: The First Plot Point Any time you label something the most important of anything you’ll get folks crawling out from […]
Story Structure Series: #3 – Five Missions for the Set-up (Part 1) of Your Story
Storyfix is proud to bring you a 10-part tutorial on the fundamentals of story structure. Today’s post is #3 in that series. #3 — Five Missions for the Set-up (Part 1) of Your Story At this point in our journey we encounter a paradoxical cart and horse moment. Because Part 1 of story structure is […]
Story Structure Series: #2 – Milestones Along the 4-Part Storytelling Road
Storyfix is proud to bring you a 10-part tutorial on the fundamentals of story structure. Today’s post is #2 in that series. #2 — Milestones Along the 4-Part Storytelling Road My approach to story structure is a little like learning about surgery. Which, by the way, I know little about other than it’s a killer analogy. Besides yanking […]
Story Structure Series: #1 — Introducing the Four Parts of Story
Storyfix is proud to bring you a 10-part tutorial on the fundamentals of story structure. Today’s post is #1 in that series. Introducing the Four Parts of Story Some writers like things in nice little boxes. Others, not so much. Either way, you can look at your story like a box, of sorts. You toss in all kinds of […]
Story Structure — Just Possibly the Holy Grail of Storytelling
Storyfix is proud to introduce an 11-part series on the fundamentals of story structure. Following this Introduction, each day will bring a new post in the series. They’ll be filed in a separate category under Pages for future reference. Introduction One question pops up at nearly every writing workshop I teach: how do I know […]
The Thing About Writing Sex Scenes
Apologies to my dyslexically-inclined readers — or simply those who see what they want to see — who think this post is actually Writing Sex Scenes About the Thing. Didn’t mean to get your hopes up. Stay tuned, though, because this post dwells on something much more forbidden than sex itself, and for those avoiding to have sex […]
What You Need to Know about Landing An Agent
As a writer who hasn’t had a new novel out in a few years, people tend to ask me what I’ve been up to lately. As if they assume there’s nothing happening here under the bus. I tell them about Storyfix, and they say, “oh, so you’re writing a blog. But are you working on anything?” […]
Tip #34: Stuck? Write Something Terrible.
Here’s another preview from my new eBook, available any day now. Really. So you’re stuck. Writer’s block. Again. You have no new ideas, no clue where to go next with your project, not a single notion how to fix the deep dark hole you’ve written yourself into. You have two choices: do nothing, or do something. […]