This list highlights ten essential writing books, covering various topics such as novel structure, screenwriting techniques, and grammar. Recommendations include “Save The Cat! Writes A Novel,” “The 21st Century Screenplay,” and “Don’t Screw Up Your Story.” Each book offers unique insights to enhance writing skills and storytelling effectiveness.
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10 Writing Tips To Keep You Writing
This week marks my fourteenth anniversary of writing, prompting a reflection on valuable lessons learned. Key writing tips include embracing imperfection, planning but remaining flexible, finding a supportive community, managing writing time effectively, reading extensively, discovering a niche, avoiding harmful comparisons, accepting trial and error, supporting peers, and prioritizing self-care.
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 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”