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Seven Jewels and seven threads.  Find them, twine them, bind them into a braid to discover how to unlock the secret of the Jewels. What was ...

The Action Plot in the beginning scenes often shows the character who will leave and explore the land to fail as many as three times before ...

  Seven Jewels – Seven Holders and their bondmates. The words of an elderly Healer send each pair on a quest to learn the secret of the Jewe...

 The opening shows the object of the quest. The middle is a series of adventures on the way to reach that object. This gives much room for c...

 Plot and character are twined together like a vine around a tree. You can't have one without the other.  In stories plot is the guideli...

 Most genre fiction books belong to the large category here called the Action plot. You have your idea but you want to decide on the action ...

  1. Are you a panster or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both? I’m definitely a bit of both. If the plot is exceptionally complex, I will plo...

 When you're writing, one warning you always hear is show don't tell. Is this always the case. There is a time to tell and that is d...

You've finished your novel or your story. Are you ready to send it off? Probably now. There's one more thing you need to check rathe...

Part of looking at your characters is considering their dialogue. Have you ever read a book where all the characters sound like each other? ...

When Mabel slices her golf ball into the town cemetery. She and her best friend Violet think the worst that could happen would be a lost b...

ONE  EASREN ASHLEA The time has come. Ash bolted upright. Her heart pounded with a beat reminiscent of one created by a mad drumme...

The four teens, led by the mysterious birds they believe are their parents seek a place of safety where they can learn to control their affi...

Action is important in writing a story. But action doesn't necessarily mean sword fights, or car chases or the like. In writing a story...

Action doesn't mean just fights and car chases and other scenes with physical action being the focus. Action is what moves the story fo...

When writing a fiction piece, there are many ways to show characterization and bring the people in the stories to life. Conflict is one of ...

Just what is action? Any time the characters are talking or moving is action. This is shown by developing a scene giving the reader a chanc...

This is part 2 of Plotting. All stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. Before talking about the beginning, there are several thing...