How do you know where to end a chapter?
Let’s go over some tips for chapter breaks, look at some examples, then create a story together and divide it into chapters!
Category: Getting Started
The opening sentence of your story can either make a reader want to dive into your book… or run away from it.
So let’s discuss some good openings, then practice writing a bunch of our own together!
As it turns out, the afterlife is a competition.
Gods are the trainers… and humans are their Pokemon.
How do you write a short, sweet (and spicy!) romance story?
Let’s find out and then write one together!
Writing the beginning to a story is hard.
Thankfully there’s an easy exercise you can do to instantly have an awesome opening to your story.
…just steal somebody else’s!
Ideas are easy. Everyone has a million ideas for a book. What’s hard is turning one into an actual story with characters, conflict, stakes, and a beginning, middle and end.
Some people like to just write by the seat of their pants and see what happens with an idea as they go, but that can be very intimidating. What if your idea runs out of steam halfway through?
A good way to make sure you’ll be able to trust that your idea will be strong enough to turn into a full story is to outline it. So let’s vote on a story idea and then expand on it using two outline methods!
Writing the beginning to a story is hard.
Thankfully there’s an easy exercise you can do to instantly have an awesome opening to your story.
…just steal somebody else’s!
My book Metl: The ANGEL Weapon is coming out this Tuesday,March 5th!
To celebrate, each stream leading up to the release will be about my process writing and/or publishing the book.
So let’s go over one of the most frustrating parts of the journey: rewriting the opening over and over.
Sometimes we want to write, but we just can’t summon the motivation.
But thankfully, there’s a ton of different tricks that you can use to get your fingers flying across the keyboard.
Starting a story is one of the most difficult parts of writing.
It’s easy to get caught up in all the different ideas you have, all the possible ways it could begin, and then ending up overwhelmed and with nothing to show for it.
So let’s break down how to start a story into three easy steps.