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…
Books are made of chapters, and chapters are made of scenes. Those segments of the story are what hold the whole thing together. Write them well, and you have a page-turner. Write them not so well, and… No writer wants to do that to their readers, so it’s worth figuring out what makes a scene…
Last night, I finally got the chance to watch the Season 7 premier of The Walking Dead. I made the mistake of watching it right before I went to bed. It took a while to fall asleep. Like, a couple of hours. Because man. That was rough. Anyway, I’ll be using specific details from that…
Confession: I didn’t jump onto the whole “The Walking Dead” bandwagon until recently. Next confession: It was a message series at church that got me on board. But maybe that should be their confession. I was a slow adopter of TWD because it’s such a fad – I never watched it, but all I had…
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