You know the books that pull you in so powerfully you feel you’re part of the story itself, not just a spectator watching from the sidelines? I always come away from a book like that thinking, How did the author do that?! One of the common denominators of such stories is the use of internal monologue.
It’s probably due to the nature of fairy tales that villains are often thought of as one of the key ingredients of a story. We learn from childhood that a good tale has a hero trying to resolve a situation despite the opposition of a villain. It makes for a great story, but as this
Characters are the beating heart of any story. Even those authors who attempt to eschew this basic building-block of storytelling usually end up forcing inanimate objects to fill the gap, attributing personality to hills, cities and vehicles. Of course a character doesn’t justify a story all by themselves. No matter how interesting a character, we
If conflict is the lifeblood of a story, the protagonist’s goal is its compass. A story about a person without a goal wanders aimlessly through page after page and will likely leave readers scratching their heads, wondering what the story they just read was all about. Your prose may be flawless, your plot points exhilarating,
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