Back To Basics When I was writing my initial story making it longer seemed easy. I had so many ideas in my head that I’d almost hit the 7500-word limit by the time my heroes had encountered their first challenge. I ended up producing a cut down version of this story, so that I could…

It’s Waiting For Me Down at the learning hub a book awaits. Inside are the stories from everyone in the writing class and the first copy has officially been collected. I’ve not picked my copy up yet, but I already have mixed feelings about it. My original intention was to have a completed story in…

Writers Block Begins My story is currently finished up to a point where the group are stood in front of a literal wall, trying to gain entry to some ancient temple grounds. It is here that I’ve come unstuck. I am both literally and figuratively at a brick wall in this process. When I had…

My First Part of The Story After completing the exercises we put everything together in an outline. I’ve mentioned this a few times, so I thought I should share what I have. I’m a little out of order here, but I’m finding it nerve-wracking to even consider posting actual parts of my story. Doing this…

Once the workbook was filled in we had a story all planned out with the following written down: genre, setting, character profiles, goals, obstacles, consequences, stakes, themes, character arcs, plot twists, foreshadowing, an opening line, dramatic scenes, inciting events, and an ending. Alongside this we had a logline, story snippet, and story overview. All the…

As we started to progress I quickly realised that the most difficult aspect of this process for me was going to be organising my thoughts. I’d always assumed the ideas for a novel were the hard part, but once the main idea was lodged it was organising the others which became the problem. The course…