plotting & planning
all our free writing craft resources on crafting your story’s structure!
How to Draft a Killer Story Climax
The climax moment of your story is everything. It's Lizzy Bennet and Mr. Darcy making up (+ making out). It's Katniss and Peeta agreeing to eat the poison berries. It's Jon [...]
How To Structure Scenes
Scenes are the building blocks of stories. Individual scenes should follow a specific arc that pushes your protagonist toward a pivotal choice moment that leads directly into the next scene. Collectively, [...]
How to Worldbuild Cultures
Start with cultural values + environment. One of the reasons we read fantasy and science fiction is to experience new cultures and world views. We crave interesting governments, bizarre [...]
What’s your point?
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How to Pick the Perfect Protagonist
Stories are about change—specifically, they are about how characters change. Characters are the heart and soul of any story, which means that we should [...]
How to make readers FEEL something
As writers, we yearn for our readers to feel while reading our words. We want to move [...]
Feedback should NEVER feel like this
You did it. You sent pages off to your writing group or critique partner or beta reader... [...]
