Writing good stories is hard. Writing good stories that linger in reader’s minds long after they finish is another challenge entirely. There are many factors that culminate into creating such a story – setting, point of view, and word choice – basically everything any creative writing class urges you to practice. The single most important ...
Having been a screenwriting contest reader for a number of years, many, many scripts have passed before my eyes. As any reader will tell you, we can flip through a script and tell you if it’s going to be bad in about 2 seconds. Other problems come to light as we start to actually read. ...
5TH Horseman by James Patterson ISBN: 0316159778 Publisher: Little Brown amazon.com $16.99 James Patterson is one of the “best-Selling” authors of all time. In the 5TH Horseman Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer investigates the death of a young woman; apparently not related to the symptoms of the illness she was admitted for, in a top-tier San francisco ...
Different writers have different strengths. Some are great at developing a plot. Others are good at creative ideas. In that same train of thought, different writers also have different areas that prove to be hurdles for them. I’m not talking about a simple case of writer’s block. Though some writers are good in all areas ...
This was the decade when the movie superhero finally grew up. Writers and artists like Will Eisner, Alan Moore, and Frank Miller had been creating mature, literary superhero stories in comic books for decades, but it wasn’t until the last ten years that both studios and filmmakers realized that superhero films with brains and depth ...
Character Development: Lesson 1: To understand how conflict shapes a character and how as an individual you might dictate how you would react in certain situations, you are to create a character. Include all of the details listed below to help you create a ‘character’. To do so well, you should feel by the end ...
As an avid fiction writer, I’ve been developing characters for novels and PBEM games for more than ten years. I also run my own fiction tips, tricks and writing website. As a general rule, there are two ways to write a novel; plot driven and character driven. My favorite has always been character driven. However, ...
