The third “Just F*cking Write Something!” Story Contest is over and the results are in.
Which stories made the top? Read on to find out!
Category: Speculative
Black-leather ladies dragging ghosts back to hell via the power of their long magic chains.
Sounds totally rad… except for the lurking secret.
Let’s write a continuation of the Chain ladies story together!
Let’s discuss four different types of enemy factions that come up in stories.
Then we’ll spin the wheel to decide which groups will hate each other when we practice writing our own!
Do you have pages upon pages of worldbuilding, but no story?
No worries!
Let’s go over some tips for how you can story-ify your premade world, then practice it together!
It’s almost Halloween.
Time to get spoopy.
When writing a story in 1st person, we tend to use “I” a lot… and it can get annoying for readers.
Let’s go over ways to avoid “I,” look at some examples from books, then practice “submerging the I” together!
Creating a magic system is one of the most fun parts of writing fantasy, but it can also be frustratingly difficult.
Let’s go over 5 questions to answer when building your own!
Exposition is any sort of explanation or explanatory description in a story.
Every story NEEDS exposition! It’s not a bad thing. But when done poorly, it can be painful to read.
However, it doesn’t have to be that way. So let’s take a look at some GOOD examples!
“You have such a way with words,” I say, squeezing some more fly corpses off my tongue.
Making your reader scared isn’t easy.
Ironically, the harder you try to scare your reader with things like spiders and dungeons, the worse it will be.
So how do you write a story that makes your reader sweat? Let’s find out!