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Today is the third part of my series on using fairy tales to write your own quest stories. For the first two parts see How To Start a Quest The Sticky Middle of a Story I’ve been working my way through The Leaves That Hung But Never Grew, which you’ll find in my collection of…
If you followed last week’s post on fairy tales you’ll have some ideas for sending your hero off on a quest. Now we come to the middle, where the story can often become bogged down and we have trouble working out what can happen next. Fortunately, fairy tales can help us. Remember The Leaves that…
It is hot. It is slightly less hot today but after a week of absorbing heat – that’s what it felt like, anyway – I am radiating so much warmth I could hire myself out as a radiator. Thank goodness I can escape to somewhere colder in my head. The cats were so miserable that…
We’ve come to the last episode of Write Where You Are. I’ve had a lot of fun creating this series and I hope you’ve had fun watching. Today, we’re stepping outdoors into the garden where I am joined by the fantastic Lexi Rees, author of the Relic Hunters series. Here is the challenge sheet for…
It’s day four of Write Where You Are. We were becoming a lot more proficient with the filming by this episode. It was a blisteringly hot day and I couldn’t bear to change out of my sundress. Rather than stick to a single room for this episode, I wanted to do something different and talk…
Welcome back to Write Where You Are. Today we’re dreaming up stories in the bedroom, with the help of P.G. Bell, author of the Train to Impossible Places. I hope you’re enjoying the series. If you do any of the writing challenges, don’t forget you can send me the results and I’ll display them on…
I learned a lot whilst filming this video series. Such as, it’s not easy delivering lines whilst lying in the bath. And it’s all very well to say ‘let’s film an episode in the bathroom’, but when your bathroom is barely big enough to turn around in, where do you put the camera? But we…
Why make a video series? It’s not the most obvious thing to do when you’re someone who dislikes having their photo taken. But when Covid-19 started and the country went into lockdown, like many others, I wanted to do something to help. So I made a few writing challenge videos, primarily for my Patron of…
In today’s story challenge, I’m talking about how to plan your story from beginning to end, thinking of the story as a series of big ‘Oh no!’ moments.
