This week, we focus more on craft than business. From Good Story Company comes advice on writing authentic female characters, enticing opening lines, and effective descriptions.
Jami Gold reviews the different types of character arcs and how they can be applied to short stories. Over at Mythcreants, Chris Winkle delves into the use of foreshadowing and also explains why realism has no place in fiction.
From Writer Unboxed, John J. Kelley shows us how social events can be used to help with character and plot development while Kim Bullock offers self-care advice for writers during trying times.
All that a lot more. Enjoy!
Writing Descriptions by Good Story Company
Writing Female Characters by Amy Wilson
3 Ways to use AI for Screenwriting (Other Than Writing a Bad Script) by Ken Miyamoto
Writing the Opening Line by Rhiannon Richardson
Using TikTok to Promote Your Writing by Ellen Levitt
Short Stories: Can They Still Have Character Arc? by Jami Gold
Traditional or Self-Publishing – That is the Question by Rod Martinez
Subtext – Guest Post by Karen Albright Lin via Debbie Burke on Kill Zone
The Why and How of Foreshadowing by Chris Winkle
10 Things to Know About BookBub Readers [Infographic] by Carlyn Robertson
Handling Editorial Feedback without Getting Overwhelmed by Tessa Barbosa
Self-Care for Writers in a Pseudo-Dystopian World by Kim Bullock
The Big Event – Using Social Occasions to Elevate Your Story by John J. Kelley
Why Realism is Toxic to Fiction by Chris Winkle
The Last Word: Epilogues by Sophie Masson
Gathering some of the best SF writers of the time including Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Silverberg, and more, TV:2000 offers prescient tales of television’s effects on society, how it can be used to shape opinion as much as entertain, misinform, disinform, and overwhelm.
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.