Author: Michell

Well, we made it… 4 episodes in 4 weeks.  This week, as you already know, we are talking about supporting characters and how your story resolution might go. So, without further ado, let’s soldier on. Part IIIe – Supporting Characters Supporting characters.  Whether you love them or hate them, they are (usually) a necessary facet of any story.  But what sorts of things do you need to consider when you’re creating them? For me, I try to keep them to a minimum.  What I mean by that is, I only bring in a supporting character if they move the story forward.  That doesn’t mean that I don’t have people in my stories.  Far from it.  I just don’t spend any time […]

Hello and welcome to week 3 of  my discussion around “The Creative Process” for story writing.  Good to have you back.  How is your story coming along? This week, we will be discussing conflict and creating the plot points for the story.  Let’s get started, shall we? Part IIIc – Conflict For a story to move and be interesting, it has got to have conflict.  That shouldn’t be too hard since our lives are full of it.  What types of conflict might we consider for this story?  There are so many to chose from, but just as a start we could use: the family against the planet; the family against each other (remember, there IS a teenager here, not to […]

By the time you read this, I will already be out of the country.  I won’t tell you where only because I don’t what to sound like I’m bragging or trying to make you feel bad if the weather is poor where you are.  If you missed last weeks posting, please stop here and go back and read it first.  That’ll put you on the same footing as everyone else.  For everyone else, let’s move on. We left off last week having just decided that we would be writing a Science Fiction novel of a length somewhere between 80,000 and 120,000 words.  Our basic story idea was that a group of amateur paleontologists/archeologists discovering a strange artifact/building/ship. I had also […]

If you read my post last week you already know that I’m going to be away for 3-weeks after this week.  The trouble I’m facing is I don’t know if I will have easy access to Internet or not.What to do?  Definitely a conundrum.  Do I take my chances and hope that I have both connectivity and time to write something each week or do I pre-write articles for each week?  There are problems with both, obviously.Waiting and writing something new each week is the biggest risk, in my mind.  Having time and connectivity that coincide is unlikely at best.  It does have the advantage that I will have something timely to write about. On the other hand, prewriting means that […]