The very first stage of the Hero’s Journey is what is commonly called “The Ordinary World”. This is because you always want to show where the hero is from, what is the world as he knows it. Things are about to happen that will send your hero on an adventure, be it a love adventure, […]
How many of you have heard of the Hero’s Journey? And how many of you have made much sense of it? Yup, that’s about how it goes for everyone. I’m not a particularly deep cookie sheet, so it took me a bit of time to understand how the Hero’s Journey could change my writing. Did […]
My first inclination after attempting my first pass on “first wave” edits as a professional is to say the the immortal words, “Well, shit.” I can’t tell you what an odd experience it is to think one day, “It shouldn’t be too bad.” and the next be rubbing your eyeball into your head and reminding […]
These aspects of the writing business suck. No nice way of putting it. They’re miserable, stress inducing pains in the hee-haws. And they generally take years to learn (which is no guarantee you’re doing it right.). Especially if your head is as hard as mine. I just couldn’t get the feeling that I was conveying […]
Okay, now, first take into account that everyone’s first drafts are different. To some people, your first draft is about getting it as close to final draft as possible which means you will have to fill in all the white space (background, decorations, etc), characterization, plot, etc, so that you pretty much just run spell […]
It sounds like it should be easy. You like a line, your story has characters of the kind they print and they have some adventure of a like type as well. BINGO! Not even close. It took me roughly four years to learn how to target properly. And that was to one line. I’ve now […]
