If you can write one sentence, then you can write a story.
Month: May 2019
Game of Thrones’s ending was bad. Lost’s ending was bad. The Soprano’s ending was bad. The list goes on and on.
But why do endings usually end up so unsatisfying? Why are they so hard to pull off?
Let’s find out!
Everyone is always talking about “subverting expectations” when it comes to critiquing media recently.
But what does that exactly mean? And is it a good thing or a bad thing?
Let’s find out!
Well, that happened. Time to fix it.
Exposition is often seen as the worst thing a writer can do. If you have to directly tell the reader things, such as what a character looks like, their history, or explaining a situation, then you’ve failed as a writer, right?
Wrong! All authors use exposition to some extent. The only difference is that they use it for good instead of evil.
So let’s go over what make good exposition vs. bad exposition.
Mother’s Day is here, and this year it’s time to give Mom what she really wants: those funny little Magic: The Gathering cards she’s always talking about!
Fight scenes may be cool in movies, but they’re notoriously hard to write in books.
So how do you write one that’s just as exciting as anything you’d see on the screen?
Let’s find out by editing a viewer’s fight scene together!
Eight seasons lead up to that?! I don’t think so.
“He smells of freshly laundered linen and some expensive body wash.”
Everyone says that the most important thing about writing is to just get something down on the page.
But sometimes, that’s easier said than done. What if the stuff that comes out of your brain and onto the page is absolute garbage?
Well never fear, friends. Because nothing you write will ever be worse than this auto-generated fanfiction.