Boon Organizing your novel or story around a narrative mode can help your story follow a reliable framework and ensure you maintain your reader’s interest. The heroic journey is a great narrative structure to follow and is one of the most popular in use, just check out every Pixar movie. The heroic journey calls for…
In Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Mr. Lorry holds an imaginary conversation with Dr. Manette, who is newly released from prison. The imaginary conversation is tied around the question, “How long have you been buried?” It takes numerous twists and turns as Lorry considers all the variety of ways that Manette could reply, keeping…
I have read A Tale of Two Cities numerous times and have made notations up and down the margins north, south, east and west. The reading of it always mesmerizes me with the detail and development of character, setting and connection, of what has gone and what is to come. “Do you particularly like the…
Highway heading of into the distance Today write using a image or item as a symbol of something important going on is a character’s life. Bright colors on the beach may be indicative of the variety of choice a person has, or the image of a long road of twists and turns moving off into…
The incredible disappearing QWERTY. What is the most important tool for me as a writer? That is easy: a keyboard. I mention this as I have noticed that over the years of owning various computers that the keyboard letters are fading more quickly with each new purchase as I upgrade. In essence, as I upgrade…
Look through your memories and find one that was especially sad. Think about all the details. Make yourself sad. Now write it down in a narrative voice that is not yours. Write it in poetry, personal prose or short story. Add this twist to it: Look at it from a funny perspective. Be smiling when…
I have always been a believer in the idea that there are things that are specifically made to fit a situation or need, but one can always come up with a bypass if that item is just not available. This is how I manage to deal with computers that don’t want to work or when…
Your main character is asleep and though it is early, the sun is lightening the room enough to discern furnishings and objects about the place. Have your main character begin his usual wake up routine. When he gets up to sit on the side of the bed for the last residuals of sleep to pass,…
