The single best piece of advice about writing prose is a piece of advice about writing poetry: A poem is a small (or large) machine made out of words. When I say there’s nothing sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is redundant. – William Carlos Williams Though a …
Are Unnecessary Scenes And Passages Ruining Your Story? Read More »
Do you want to dig around in the darker recesses of the human imagination? Scare the bejesus out of your reader? Telling grisly fireside tales of what lies beyond is, after all, among the very oldest of human traditions. To date, millions of horror stories have been told, so how are you going to make …
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The third person perspective, abandoning ‘I’ in favor of ‘him, her, it and them’, is the natural writing style for telling stories about other people. It’s no surprise then that the vast majority of stories are told in the third person. In this article, I’ll be exploring the advantages third person narration offers authors, as …
Is The Third Person Point Of View Too Impersonal? Read More »
A plot hole is an absence in the narrative that spoils the story. Usually plot holes are the absence of a ‘how’: a character suddenly knows something with no explanation, or the cast makes a seemingly impossible journey between chapters. Of course the absence of a great deal of explanation is necessary in any story, …
