Story is Transformation
annerocious: Here’s a quick rule of thumb for your protag. Move as far as you can between the before and the after. Start like this. And use the story to get to this. Transformation is what stories are about. The bigger the better. It’s easy to make the transformation dramatic when the distance between before…
Read moreYears and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time…
Read moreknitmeapony: This is still one of the best executed jokes I’ve ever seen
Read moreAre weak plots really bad? Bc I can’t really think about a real good one
brynwrites: For this, we need to answer the following questions: What is a plot point?What makes a plot point strong? In order for something to be a plot point to begin with, it must provide a point within the plot where the story could go in more then one direction. In most situations, it’s the…
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Read moretarysande: When your character tells you a thing and you, the author, are like, “No, you’re shitting me,” and the character’s all, “I absolutely am not,” and you realize that every single seed needed to grow that thing WAS ALREADY PLANTED IN THE STORY.
Read moreidealisticshoujohearts: cookiecutterwitch: vr-trakowski: deducecanoe: whopooh: daimonie: motherfuckingshakespeare: runecestershire: runecestershire: persephonesidekick: harmonicakind: yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions. So…
Read moreTrying to write when your country’s falling apart
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Read moremaiikawriter: Sometimes you just don’t want to feel what your characters are feeling and that makes it really hard to write.
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