Writing Process
How to Write Scene Cards Using Lisa Cron’s Story Genius Method
Lisa Cron’s Story Genius guides writers through the scene card process. Her method differs from traditional outlining, where writers plot every external event that will occur in their story. These scene cards focus on your protagonist's internal evolution. To craft a...
What You Need to Know About Your Protagonist Before Writing Scene Cards (Inspired by Lisa Cron’s Story Genius)
Story Genius by Lisa Cron guides you through developing a character-driven story with scene cards focused on your protagonist’s internal conflict. It takes everything we’ve learned about writing, reminds us what doesn’t work and emphasizes that readers stick around...
6 World Building Mistakes Writers Should Avoid
Poor worldbuilding can weaken your plot. It affects readers’ ability to immerse themselves in your story and character development. While character growth should not hinge upon external events alone, the world that they live in will naturally influence their journey...
Understand the Writer’s Journey: 4 Lessons from Thunder and Lightning
Natalie Goldberg’s Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft is a meditative look at the writer’s journey. Do not come to this book expecting a series of concrete strategies and resources for writing well. You will need to look beyond the surface. Read...
How to Write Authentic Platonic Relationships in Fiction
Platonic relationships are just as crucial to our stories as romantic relationships or tension between protagonists and antagonists. They can provide points of conflict and growth for our main character, give them a realistic support system, or mirror their journey....
Worldbuilding for Writers: How to Create a Believable Setting
Worldbuilding provides a backdrop for your characters to play in and the rules by which your world and all of its characters are held. This world can be a source of conflict. Your world enhances the story’s believability as readers immerse themselves in the external...
How to Write Authentic Relationships in Your Story: 6 Tips
Authentic relationships are crucial to developing a compelling story. Your main character is at the heart of every story, which is why readers care to stick around. The characters who surround your MC influence them throughout their evolution. Romantic, familial,...
How to Create Multidimensional Characters: A Character Development Process
Character development is essential to crafting an engaging story. Readers stick around for your characters’ journeys, not the flashy fight scenes or dramatic external conflicts. Every scene within your story needs to influence your main character whether through...
How to Use Non-Writing Time to Explore Your Manuscript
The task of writing involves more than just putting words onto the page. Researching, outlining and revising are some of those additional tasks. Another task that writers engage in - often unconsciously- is non-writing. Non-writing is time that is not spent on...
How to Use “Wired for Story” to Engage Readers
Lisa Cron’s Wired for Story encourages writers to come to the page with an understanding of how our brains interact with stories. This knowledge ensures that our plot is filled with scientifically supported techniques that compel the audience to keep reading. You...
