NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Eight: Writing a Synopsis
Step 8: Writing a Synopsis While you might be tempted to write your story just from your scene list, it’s a good idea to take one more...
NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Seven: Organize Your Ideas Into Scenes
Step 7: Organize Your Ideas Into Scenes The next step is also simple and fun – you take your big collection of scenes and try to see...
NaNoWriMo Quickstart Guide – Part Six: Brainstorm Situations and Scenes
Step 6: Brainstorm Situations and Scenes Once you have your cast, it’s time to figure out what’s going to happen to them. This is where the fun...
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...
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 Task Story – A “New” Genre that’s
One of the more fascinating things about the internet is its ability to highlight so many different facets of human nature. The internet has brought out the...