Your short story elements answer the who, what, where, when, how and why questions. These elements are the basic buiding blocks or components of a riveting story.
Who – Dramatic Characters
What – in a Dramatic Situation
Where – and a Dramatic Setting
When – follow a Dramatic Plot
How – to a Dramatic Climax
Why – to prove a Dramatic [...]
At the moment I cannot yet tell you how to write a novel because I have not yet been able to do it. Why is it hard to do something that you can explain quite simply?
I do not and cannot know why it is hard for you. But because I am trying I have been [...]
Last night I sat myself down and tried to figure out where I’m broken. I came to the conclusion that I’m not broken, not more than anybody else. I just need the one thing to tie my writing career to and then take the leap into the unknown.
A friend of mine a long time said [...]
I worked out a plot structure while I was analyzing some novels. My analysis was partly done to understand how the book was put together and partly to work out a template for writing the book.
I started my analysis on Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys which I compared with Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat! The Last [...]
