Because nothing quite sums up Thanksgiving quite like a story about teenagers in space orbiting around a dead Earth!
Whether you’ve finished your story or haven’t even started, writing a summary of it can be super helpful.
Let’s take a look at some good summaries and then write our own together!
Sometimes when you’re writing a story you have to skip ahead a few days… or a few hundred days.
How do you do that without jarring your reader?
Let’s look at some examples, find out, and write our own!
Architects see houses differently, chefs see food differently, and writers should see books differently too.
Let’s practice “reading like a writer” together with excerpts from three awesome books!
You’ve probably heard the phrase “show don’t tell” before.
But here’s the truth of the matter: that’s a bunch of crap.
In order to write a good story, you have to BOTH show AND tell, and knowing when to do one or the other can be tricky!