Monday Motivation: The key to great stories? Great scenes
Life is a narrative composed of multiple overlapping stories. This is true for every one of the eight billion or so there are of us. Each of those stories can […]
Monday Motivation: Is your story outline a fossil or a blueprint?
How do you generate story? There seems an obvious answer to that: you imagine a series of events involving and challenging a character whose responses will then constitute your narrative. […]
Writing Secrets: Remember the flow
Memoir writers often start out with less trepidation than their fiction-scribbling peers. They already know the story, right? They’re familiar with the characters, and they can picture the scenes [...]
The art of writing great scenes
The building blocks of drama We all recognize the scenario. We’ve got the story – or at least the beginning and the end – in our heads. We know our […]
Monday Motivation: Ancient scandal, model scene
David Grann is an American investigative reporter who has over the years won a slew of awards for his work. I remember a piece I read in the New Yorker […]
