My mystery plot was just some scattered notebook notes until I tried this method. WATCH ON YOUTUBE In this video, I use: a mandala chart, the One Page Novel story structure, and a worksheet from my Manuscript at Midnight collection, to outline the mystery subplot of my dark academia novel.
As I’m working on my own Gothic novel at the moment, I thought I would read Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë for some inspiration, and it instantly re-ignited my admiration for both Brontë and for Gaskell. Today I thought we could take some prose examples from Charlotte Brontë’s writing, analyse them, see what makes… Read More
A fun new way to converse with your story… Remember my ‘writing a novella in 2 weeks’ series from a couple years ago? Me neither. But I loved that story and its characters and settings a lot, and I’ve been wanting to return to it and finish redrafting, except that I never seemed to be… Read More
I’ve already written a detailed article on How to Write a Novella and How to Write Fast, but in this post, I wanted to share some takeaways from a novella project I began recently. It all started with a Dark Academia Solo RPG I was working on. I wanted to test it by playing through… Read More