by Nanci | Mar 24, 2025 | Character, Craft, Podcast, Point of View
How do you write a believable child narrator? On one hand, they’re young and often the most vulnerable characters, especially in a world of adults. But writing from a child’s perspective is deceptively difficult. Writers often fall into traps making the...
by Nanci | Mar 17, 2025 | Character, Craft, Podcast
The unreliable narrator is one of the most fascinating storytelling techniques. Whether you’re writing in first-person or third, unreliable narrators keep your readers hooked into your story. The unreliable narrator compels readers to interpret the story,...
by Nanci | Jan 13, 2025 | Character, Podcast
What do you do when you’re stuck in a scene? Or you know your scenes aren’t working and you just don’t know why or how to move each scene forward? In this episode, we’ll go over 3 reasons your scenes aren’t working and what to do instead....
by Nanci | Dec 16, 2024 | Character, Podcast
The most common struggle writers have when writing their first novel is structure. Plotters overthink and often over complicate their plot. And pansters run amok with too much material for them to metabolize into a streamlined, compelling story. What’s often...
by Nanci | Nov 18, 2024 | Character, Plot, Podcast
Cause and effect is one of the staples of a cohesive plot. Every cause leads to an effect. It’s often described as a chain reaction: one event leads to another and another. But when we think of cause and effect solely in what happens, we’re missing a big...
by Nanci | Nov 11, 2024 | Character, Podcast
How do you build character into the structure of your story? What’s the story beneath the plot? What character secrets are driving your story forward? You never want to rely on plot structures alone. There’s the story underneath that’s driving the...
