Top Reasons Why A Cliffhanger Ending Will Ruin Your Series
If you are planning a series of books or films, then you need to write the first one in a…
How To Make Your Audience Cry
If you are writing something absolutely devastating in your story, such as a heartbreak or death scene, it's natural as…
Make Your Character Motivation Understandable So Your Story Makes Sense
I've written before about how your Protagonist and your Antagonist both have to be motivated to go after what it…
How To Write Characters Learning Information
If in your story you have a character that needs to learn a piece of information that is crucial to…
How To Write Natural Dialogue
When you're writing dialogue in your story, try and make sure it reads like people actually speak, rather than reading…
How To Write Character Backstory
Your character's back story is their history and life prior to your jumping in point for this story. I'm going…
Top Reasons You Need To Kill Main Characters
If you're writing a book or script where there is risk or peril, and you want your audience to believe…
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…