How To Write A Boring Scene In An Interesting Way
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Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk Naturally you want your story to be interesting. If your story is boring, you’ll lose the attention...
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How To Find Confidence In Your Narrator’s Voice
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JJ Barnes explores the narrator's voice in different stories, and how to replicate that style with confidence in your own writing.
Agatha Harkness And Writing The Perfect Villain Turn
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JJ Barnes explores how Agatha Harkness in WandaVision is given the perfect villain turn, and writing techniques to recreate the effect.
How To Write A Human Villain That Is Scarier Than A Monster – Max Cady In Cape Fear
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Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk Some stories need a scary character. Thrillers, mysteries and horrors all need a bad guy to torment...
Examples Of The Inciting Incident In Films And Books
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Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk The Inciting Incident is the moment that starts your story. Before this moment, your character is just...
How To Write Perseverance As A Character Trait
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Your characters will all have different qualities. You need to give your characters distinct personalities to ensure they are clean and interesting....
How To Keep Your Story Conflict Active In Every Scene
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Your story follows your Protagonist on a journey to achieve a story goal, and your Antagonist trying to stop them. As long...
How To Write A Successful Protagonist Partnership
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On The Table Read, “The Best Book Reader Magazine in the UK“, author JJ Barnes describes what a Protagonist Partnership is, what...
Top Reasons To Rip Away Your Character’s Emotional Support System
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When you start your story, you will most likely put in an emotional support system around your Protagonist. You give them friends,...
Top Reasons Why Your Audience Will Love A Character Who Will Risk It All
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To make sure your audience is fully invested in seeing if your Protagonist gets what they want, you need to show them...
Top Reasons Why Side Adventures Make Your Audience Stop Caring
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Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they'll finish this story, then trust you enough to...
How To Control Your Story Pace
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The pace of your story is how quickly it moves from one plot point to another, and is controlled by the details...
How To Write A Dystopian Story
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Dystopian fiction deals with a future where the world has been changed, and not for the better. They are entertaining because they're...
How To Start Writing In 2021
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2021 can be the year of your story. The year you finally get to write "The End." And I can help you....
Why Killing Henchmen Can Make Your Hero Unlikeable
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The problem with henchmen is that if you're writing a hero who is intended to be morally pure, you can't have just...