How To Write In A Three Act Structure – Video
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk On the Siren Stories YouTube Channel, JJ Barnes presents The Table Read creative writing advice series. In today’s video, she guides you how to write…
Why Thanos Is The Protagonist Of Avengers: Infinity War
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk If you have seen the Avengers films, then you’ll be familiar with chief Bad-Guy, Thanos. I will be exploring the reasons it is Thanos who…
Top Reasons Why Side Adventures Make Your Audience Stop Caring
Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they'll finish this story, then trust you enough to come back for more.
How To Control Your Story Pace
The pace of your story is how quickly it moves from one plot point to another, and is controlled by the details between the plot points. A slower paced story…
How To Write A Conflict Engine For An Episodic Story
For a successful series, you need more than just the long form conflict. Something needs to happen each episode to tell a short mini story, a mini conflict. For this,…
How To Tell Your Audience What Your Story Is About
When your audience comes to your story, whether reading or watching, they won't necessarily know what your story is about. They might have a blurb or a synopsis, but often…
Why Your Story Needs Foreshadowing And How To Write It
Foreshadowing is the technique of hinting to your audience where your story is going, without actually telling them. It works to make your story flow and feel planned and prepared,…
How To Write An Interesting Story Without Writing Info Dumps
Sometimes as part of your story, you'll have information that needs to be delivered in order for the story to make sense. This could be rules of magical lore within…
How To Write Multiple Antagonists in one story
JJ Barnes writes about different styles of Antagonist and gives writing advice to use multiple Antagonists in one story. She references Jurassic Park.
How To Write Multiple Protagonists
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes has writing advice to create a story with multiple protagonists.
Top Reasons To Write The Death Of A Mentor
On The Table Read, JJ Barnes writes about the death of a mentor, what it does for character development, and her writing advice for how to write it yourself.
How To Write Your Midpoint
Your first act is setting up what they want, the second act is where they start to pursue it, and the third act is where they've learned what they need…