NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Five: Pick Your Main Characters
Step 5: Pick your Main Characters It might seem strange that it took so long to talk about the characters, after all, you already thought up rough...
NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Four: Picking a Theme
Step 4: Picking a Theme While an interesting main plot or idea for the story is going to make it interesting to read, the truth is if...
NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Three: Picking a Core Premise
Step 3: Picking a Core Premise Your next task is to pick a Core Premise for your story based on the pile of ideas you’ve just put...
NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Two: Brainstorming Ideas
Step 2: Brainstorming Ideas Once you’ve picked your genre, the next step is customizing this story so it’s yours. How do you do this? It’s pretty simple-...
NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part One: Pick A Genre
The following multi-part series will offer a step-by-step quick-start guide to putting together a story. Even if you have little to no experience with writing, this guide...
Detective Conan Mystery Formula
The following formula, found on Reddit and submitted by user TeraVonen, is a near perfect summary of the typical 2-part story pattern you find in the mystery...
Plastic Love and City Pop
Apparently an early 80’s Japanese music genre called City Pop is exploding on the internet right now. As a watcher of 80’s anime, I’m used to it,...
20 Tips for Writing Successful Webnovels
There are a number of survival strategies that Webnovel authors use to try to keep on top of their relentless workload while keeping their audience happy. These...
The S.P.I.N.E. of Good Comics
Previously, I’ve written about the characteristics that make up a good story, at least from the point of view of the audience, and how the writer has...
The Importance of the Spine of Action- Game of Thrones and Legend of the Galactic Heroes
The importance of a story’s central activity, or Spine of Action should never be underestimated when writing, especially when you’re writing longer works. Two beautiful examples of...