For day three of our series, we’ll be discussing one of my favorite story elements, because it makes the story world go ’round: conflict. In most basic terms, conflict is a fight. I talked about types of conflict, including man vs. man and man vs. self, in this post. In this post, I described how…
In the first day of our series, we talked about something every good protagonist needs: agency. Today, we’ll talk about something else many can’t do without: best friends. Or coworkers, or spouses, or roommates . . . you get the idea. The sidekicks. In Young Adult novels, the best friend is an important character –…
Welcome to the first Blogging from A to Z challenge post! We start our series with the reason most stories exist – character agency. Great, now my characters need an agent too. Not so, aspiring writer (and for the record, you may not need one either, but we’ll save that for a different post). Simply…
In the past few years, I’ve seen bloggers participate in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. After picking a theme, they post something about that theme every day during the month of April (not including Sundays). I’d considered doing it, but this is the first year I’ve actually done the necessary work of picking a…
Allison Maruska 