Aphorisms are especially well-suited to generating story ideas, because they often contain recommended approaches or courses of action that serve as...
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Profiling Your Characters
Putting together detailed profiles of your characters can help bring them to life in your writing mind, but doing so takes time and effort—which...
Finding Stories in the I Ching
The I Ching ("Book of Change"), is an original Chinese classic the origin of which may lie as far back as 3,000 BCE. Is it a source of wisdom?...
Paikea, Dorothy, and Katniss—Oh, My!
It cannot be denied that females are underrepresented as main characters in the world of mainstream stories. Can we use the principles outlined in...
Finding Theme in the Inciting Incident
Considering the importance of theme to a story, it behooves the writer to practice finding its hiding places and identifying its species—not to coax...
Stories from Titles | Perfection
Have you ever thought of a phrase and said to yourself, "That would make a good title for a story"? Of course, you have. The trick is figuring out...