by Jesper Schmidt | Dec 6, 2021 | Podcast, Tips, Writing
The New York Times bestselling author, Anthony Ryan, joins the Am Writing Fantasy podcast for a discussion with Jesper about fantasy writing, publishing, and marketing books in today’s publishing landscape. Find Ryan’s books here: https://anthonyryan.net/...
by Jesper Schmidt | Nov 18, 2021 | Podcast, Tips, Writing
A Game of Thrones has inspired characters who contain such strong good qualities, like honor or justice, that it can lead to his or her death. And writing classes teach developing characters with strengths and weaknesses to make them well rounded. A heroine can be a...
by Autumn | Aug 26, 2021 | Tips
This week as we continue our journey through story structure, we are tackling the second pivot point of the novel with the New Info Phase—which is often referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul! 😱 The first plot turning was during the Inciting Incident. This is why...
by Autumn | Jul 22, 2021 | Tips, Writing
It is time to continue on in the next phase of the 7 Steps of Story Structure with the Reaction Phase. After tackling the Intro, we brought the reader on a journey from becoming familiar enough with the world to feel comfortable and beginning to forge a relationship...
by Jesper Schmidt | Jun 22, 2021 | Podcast, Writing
There are a LOT of parts involved in writing a story. Even if you are a panster, you should be thinking about the story’s plot, characters arcs, how the two inter-link, sub-plots and how they affect the main plot, and then there is the story’s emotional...
