Key Takeaway:Writing a myth is an opportunity to explore creative storytelling and impart valuable life lessons; research existing myths, brainstorm ideas, create characters, write your story and revise/edit it for quality. How To Write A Myth: 5 Steps Now let’s walk through the five steps ...
Brainstorm your idea. Brainstorming is the most important step before starting to write. On a blank piece of paper, write down everything that comes to mind when you think about your story -- characters, location, plot points -- everything. No detail is too small. Ask yourself questions ...
If you haven’t read a lot ofbooks or understand the tropesthat readers expect, you can’t expect them to like what you write. Yes, it’s possible to bend the rules now and then, but you can’t bend them unless you know them thoroughly, enough to really understand where and when it...
So you want to know how to write a coming of age story? Coming of age is one of the central themes in all of literature, but it's also a specific type of story in its own right, one of thenine types of storiesthat we talk about inThe Write Structure plot framework. From cult and...
you create cohesion and resonance amongst your plot, character arcs, and theme, it will also be a crucial piece of information when it comes time to market your story to readers. Today, I’m opening a five-part series examining major fiction genres, beginning with, “How to write fantasy?
4. because this inner drive that can be either constructive or destructive is so mysterious and powerful that it has attracted many people to speculate on it. From ancient times, these men and women developed artistic “languages” in the form of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sc...
How does she captivate us so much?And I thought maybe there’s some “there” there for a story. Klimek:But as Cynthia started to write the article that would later appear in the March issue ofSmithsonianmagazine, she discovered that the things Sojour...
What is it going to be about? After struggling with some monstrous idea of using a first person perspective to tell a story of a horrific murder,I give up before starting to write and resort to my pillow and blanket for warmth and comfort.“Not everyone gets to be Dan Brown.” I tel...
Today, this headline would be a little long winded, but back in the 1950s it was all about compelling statements. So this begs the question,are you spending long enough working on your headlines? 5 things you need to know (so you can write better headlines) ...
Many authors simply feel that the first chapter is merely the start of a good story, but there is so much more to it than that. A first chapter is the reader's first introduction to the world, the characters, the plot, and most importantly it sets the tone for the book. ...