I hope you take up your pen and write along with me, even if you only have 15 minutes! This week I started out by creating a Heroine Frame for the main character from last week’s Write With Me. A Heroine Frame is a one-page character building method I teach in How to Be the… Read More
If one of your characters feels flat or boring, perhaps it’s because you haven’t given them enough ATTENTION. All relationships, even fictional ones, demand care. Character development comes through spending time with your characters on the page; listening to them talk about things that matter to them, following them as they engage with difficult problems,… Read More
Creative Writer Worksheet – Personal Archetypes (PDF) Perhaps it’s my tendency to categorisation, but I often notice that the people I meet fall into patterns, and as I accumulate experiences, I fall into patterns of responses towards them. I admit that there is a danger when categorising people, that you’ll do them an injustice, and… Read More
Creative Writing Worksheet – Decision Making (PDF) Your characters’ decisions will determine the course of your story. Will they make the right choice or the wrong one? And who can tell the difference? Use this worksheet to test which decisions will weave a better tale. You can find a ZIP of all of the writing worksheets… Read More
Experimenting with different points of view can be great fun and hugely rewarding, but settling on a point of view for a long piece? A little scary. Download this Worksheet (PDF) These four worksheets can help you weigh the pros and cons of various point of view techniques, and help you decide. For a comprehensive overview of… Read More