This blog explores the concept of genre in writing, distinguishing it from theme. It emphasizes understanding your genre by analyzing existing works, avoiding outdated tropes, and creatively playing with audience expectations. By twisting familiar conventions, writers can craft fresh narratives and stand out in a competitive landscape.
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How To Set Up Stakes Like A Boss
The blog emphasizes the importance of raising stakes in storytelling to maintain reader engagement. It defines stakes as increasing obstacles that challenge characters’ goals, illustrated through examples, including Percy Jackson and the Triple Goddess. By elevating these challenges, writers enhance story pacing and investment, ultimately avoiding monotony in narrative progression.
How To Set Up and Pay Off Your Stories
The blog discusses the concept of “setting up and paying off” in storytelling, illustrated by examples from the film Knives Out and the novel Of Mice and Men. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring that elements introduced early on are resolved later, linking audience expectations and maintaining engagement throughout the narrative.
How To Format Your Radio Play Like A Boss
If you’ve never written a radio script, it can be quite a change from writing a screenplay, a theatre play or a novel. The whole thing is built on you setting an atmosphere so we can understand where we are and what’s going on by only using audible clues. Sounds terrifying, right? Here in thisContinueContinue reading “How To Format Your Radio Play Like A Boss”
How To Format Your Theatre Play Like A Boss
Understanding how to properly format the work you’re writing so it’s clear and readable for the medium you’re using is really important. Writing for the screen is not the same as writing for the stage, the radio or a novel. In this blog I’m going to cover how to format your script when writing aContinueContinue reading “How To Format Your Theatre Play Like A Boss”
How To Avoid Writing Diverse Stories We’re Bored of Reading
Having a diverse idea can be a great thing, but the downside comes if we’re trying to write something that involves a particular community we may not be fully familiar with, ie autism or LGBTQ+. I’ll highlight what we’re bored of reading to truly have a fresh take on those characters. 1. Limit Writing ComingContinueContinue reading “How To Avoid Writing Diverse Stories We’re Bored of Reading”
Top 10 Writing Books You Must Read
With the amount of books telling you they can help you write better, it can be incredibly easy to get lost amongst which ones are worth reading. Well, here I’m going to break down my top 10 books that you really should read. 1. Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays by Lucy V Hay Lucy VContinueContinue reading “Top 10 Writing Books You Must Read”
How To Create Strong Story Ideas
We’ve all been there, having ideas we’d love to write. It could be any genre, any format, but how do we make sure it’s as solid as possible when there are so many stories out there? How do we make sure we have strong story ideas? 1. Pre-Sold Ideas A Pre-Sold story idea is somethingContinueContinue reading “How To Create Strong Story Ideas”
How To Write A Intension Driven Scene
I bet when you’ve written a scene you really love, when it comes down to the editing you’ve likely cringed at how long it was. Don’t worry. We’ve all been there as we’ve tried to get that dastardly idea of a scene out of your head and onto the page.