Storytelling

The most powerful form of lightning magic, the lightning storm causes destruction. The sky is gray and lightning bolts from several gray clouds are raining upon the mountain range, which runs from the center-left to the center-right. A lake sits in the lower left and a grassy plain takes up the lower right. The mountains, lake, and grass have shadows from the clouds up above. Stormy weather is a great setting to use dramatic scenes in the story.

The Awesome Power of Great Dramatic Scenes in Fantasy

CONTENTS Introduction Part of writing a fantasy book is creating a compelling, interesting story that keeps readers engaged from the very first page all the way to the last page. How then do writers make interesting stories? By using what’s known as dramatic scenes that add tension and generate conflict between multiple characters as they […]

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An underwater environment with rocks, seaweed, and bubbles. The rocks are brown and the seaweed are pink, green, and orange. The bubbles are all over and in the middle of the largest one is the words show, don’t tell.

How Show, Don’t Tell Helps You Create Stories People Love

CONTENTS The Premise There are many routes writers take to tell a story people return to over and over again. Some prefer writing in flowery language, others have the big picture in mind and slowly fill it in over time and have their readers follow along. However, there is one ingredient so essential to writing

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