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Have you signed up for 750words.com yet? Or will you try doing 750 words on paper? I’ve just completed my 20th day of doing 750 words! Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day in January to better Think Like a Writer. The next three days [...]
Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day in January to better Think Like a Writer. This is the second day of three days of Thinking Like a Writer about scenes. Here’s the first post to remind you about panoramas, zooms and scans. Zooms focus in [...]
Here’s another creative writing prompt for your 750 words, a challenge to write 750 words each day in January to better Think Like a Writer. The next three days of Thinking Like a Writer are all connected and I’ll explain it here, then just remind you of the prompts for the next two days. When [...]
Why Plot with Scenes? 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Once you have a scene list, you need to decide which scenes to actually write. I’ve found it helpful to think about scenes as Zooms, or places where I want the reader to stop and spend some time noticing details. Scenes are [...]
When to use Narrative and when to use Scenes 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents This is the great Show-Don’t-Tell debate. When should you take the time in a story to present a fully developed scene? To understand this, let’s look at options. Scene. First, is the fully developed scene that we [...]
Sports books are action-oriented, fast-paced and full of memorable characters; but the core of a sports bookâfiction or non-fiction–is people. Characters make sports interesting. Granted, these characters are constantly on the move and not inclined to deep musings about life. Yet, it is the character interacting with the unique aspects of a sports novel that [...]
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