Book Building: The Sandwich Method
Ideas are flooding your head, grasping for your attention during every waking moment and demanding to be written. It’s good that you decided to START your book off on the right foot, but now it’s time to write and you’re stumped. This isn’t regular ole writers block either. This is the fundamental challenge of how […]
Battle of the Views: There’s No I in Them
It seems there’s been a heated debate surrounding point of view (POV) in novels lately. What’s better: First person or third person? What do readers enjoy more? What is most effective? The questions are endless, just as the arguments for and against each avenue. Even as you read this, I can hear people shouting , […]
Constructing Character
Without characters, you have no story. It is the characters who should drive and shape the plot, not the other way around. Main characters, secondary characters and tertiary characters are what define a narrative. You can’t mention X-Men without images of the mutants, or Titanic without the star-crossed lovers. A story can happen from any […]
Review of War Horse
Caution: Spoilers! Think War Horse is another silly animal movie? Wrong. Panning shots of the English countryside set the backdrop for a colt’s birth and eases viewers into the vast world that surrounds us all as we are welcomed into life. Young Albert Narracott and his equine counterpart, Joey, train each other in the disciplines […]
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