Tag: writing advice
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When Your Characters Surprise You
They’re sneaky things, characters, aren’t they? You think you know them, that you know where they’re taking the story, and then BOOM! A hidden past! A terrible secret! A link to another character you never saw coming! As a writer who’s a mix of plotter and pantster, I love it when my characters do something…
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How the John Lewis Christmas Advert is a Perfect Story
Ok, so no story can be perfect perfect, but this advert is a fantastic example of wonderful storytelling. There’s a lot us writers can learn from it about crafting stories. It has all the right ingredients to make it a stunner, and pulls them together with style and elegance, and for something that is just a minute and…