They say that a good story writes itself, well I have been mulling over a project going on 5 years now and in that time have written maybe 2 or...
I will agree with several posters on this forum in response to your question about plot coming first. I think that 90% of the time, Plot gets a...
At the start of this year I found myself unemployed, which I worked hard daily to remedy but I also took that time to really dive into finally...
To everyone who has a posted here, thank you. It was not my intention to incite this kind of fervor nor was I expecting this kind of response....
This is exactly the kind of statement that "Pantsers", and other folks who have commented here, have made that I don't understand. To say you...
I think what I'm not understanding is, where does the dramatic structure come from if you pay no attention to plot? How can you know where to...
But how can a writer just start writing without knowing what they are going to write or the direction of the story? How do "characters do what...
Since taking up the challenge and task of writing my novel, I've read about and attended workshops on different writing processes. Most of the...
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