Before you can create conflict, you must determine what your protagonist wants most. What are his or her goals? Basic Survival (Safety, food, water, air, sleep) Emotional (Love, self-esteem, achievement,
Workshop #6: Setting Setting is your story’s stage – Show your reader what you want them to see, narrow the camera lens from panoramic to single shot Her skiff
Showing emotins adds depth to a character, draws readers into the story, and allows the reader to share in the character’s experience.
Within each person dwells a hunger for positive feedback and approval. We crave those little tidbits that spur us on; a pat on the back, a kind word, an
Words that tell rather than show, part A Filter Words Filter words tell the reader what a character is thinking, feeling, or perceiving: See (He saw a bird fly by
Fairly That Just Then Very Pretty (as an intensifier) Totally Quick Gave/give It It was/It is Felt Absolutely Literally Act to Actively Probably Actually Any As to Basically Carefully Certainly
Technique #1: Create mental images for the reader E.g.: It rained last Tuesday. Few people showed up to the baseball game – this sounds like a report or newspaper column,
One of the hazards of being a writer is the potential for devoting more time to our own mental creations than to actual people. Thus our isolation is largely of our own making. We run the risk of losing that vital connection with our readers on a personal level; the very audience to whom we write becomes just that – an audience rather than flesh and blood readers.
