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69CJ's Creative Studio - Thoughts on Developing Interesting Characters
One topic that can get different writers into an argument concerns the relative importance of plot vs character. What's more important: the events that happen in a story, or the characters and how they...
0 comments58CJ's Creative Studio - Building a Story (Part 4)
Now that we have developed our major characters, it's time we focus our attention on that other aspect of story telling: the plot.
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57CJ's Creative Studio - Story Building Basics
Let's start at the very beginning. It's a very good place to start. In his "Poetics", Aristotle proposed a structure for story telling. It's not that he originated it -- this structure has been around since...
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54CJ's Creative Studio - Writers Write Right, Right?
When you take your writing seriously, you shouldn't be shy about playing with the language it to see where it takes you.
0 comments55CJ's Creative Studio - Building a Story (Part 2)
Continuing with construction of the story by focusing on our two main characters. By fleshing them out, we are one step closer to the point where we can write.
0 comments59CJ's Creative Studio - Building a Story (Part 3)
The Support Character and Plot Happens The person who they hire to work as an artist at the kiosk, for some reason, I've always thought of as an Indian (American variety). I've even been calling him Johnny...
4 comments72What's better in fiction writing, a plot outline or free flow writing?
This is a question that definitely gets asked more than you'd think. When writers get together, whether face-to-face or virtually, the question of working methods always seems to come up. Freeform vs...
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56CJ's Creative Studio - 10 Tips For Authors Wanting to Scuttle Their Chances of a Sale
They say that only a fraction of creative writing submissions ever make money for the author. That means that a writer is faced with a career of rejection after rejection. How depressing. BUT...what if we...
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56CJ's Creative Studio - 10 Tips on Critiquing for Writers and Readers
Writers often talk about needing readers during certain stages of the writing process. Perhaps the better word would be "critiquers" (I would say "critic", but that has bad connotations). These are the brave souls who read unfinished works and give their opinions about it. Seems easy, but it really isn't.
9 comments54CJ's Creative Studio -- Don't Write What You Know
Before I read a lot of scripts and stories from new writers, I never realized that English teachers have done a great disservice to young people learning to write. These instructors say, "Write what you know." To this I say, "Poppycock."
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