This week, Kathryn Craft provides strategies for managing POV in your story while James Scott Bell discusses the three types of “mirror moments” in fiction.
Chris Winkle encourages writers to simplify their stories for improved reader experience. Looking for better ways to build suspense? Tracy Clark has a few tips for you.
With language AI gaining attention, Erma Clare examines ChatGPT as a story development tool for writers and Joe Bunting reviews the ten types of stories and their underlying values.
All that and a bit more. Enjoy!
A Copy-Editing Checklist for Novelists by Dana Isaacson
Writing for Theater and Film by Carina Jaramillo*
How to Write an Optimized and High-Converting Book Description by Rob Kosberg
4 Ways to Organize Your Third-Person POVs by Kathryn Craft
5 Strategies I Use to Launch New Books on Kindle Unlimited by Nicholas Harvey
6 Tips for Building Suspense by Tracy Clark via Hank Phillippi Ryan
How Promo Stacking Helps Authors Hit Bestseller Lists by Diana Urban
Put a Funhouse Mirror in the Middle of Your Mystery by James Scott Bell
Managing Exposition Starts With Simplifying the Story by Chris Winkle
Friend or Foe: ChatGPT Has Pushed Language AI into the Spotlight by Erma Clare
An Anxiety Episode Changed My (Dis)Belief in Writer’s Block by Kathryn Magendie
How to Use Scars to Deepen Characterization by Sue Weems
The Ten Types of Stories and How to Master Them by Joe Bunting
*Special thanks to youth services librarian and educator Chloe Pederson and her student, Anna, for alerting me to this one. Who would have thought a home theater furniture store would offer such a helpful blog?
Elsie the curious cow wanders to the window of the farmhouse where her human owners are watching a graphic TV show about the slaughter of animals at industrial meat farms. Shaken by this revelation of her own imminent fate, Elsie is determined to escape, but to where? She later learns of a country called India, where cows are worshipped, and devises a plan to get there.
In the middle of a war, two enemy pilots crash land on a desolate and inhospitable world. The human, Willis Davidge, and the Drac, Jeriba Shigan must overcome their mutual hatred and learn to work together not only for their own survival, but for that of the child that Jeriba is carrying.