by Sylvie Kurtz Your Character’s Comfort Zone Your character’s comfort zone; he has one. We all do. That’s what tames life’s chaos and allows us some degree of feeling in control. Everyone’s box comes in a different shape and size, but everyone has one. Your characters “lived” a life that got them to the starting…
by Sylvie Kurtz Casting a Story A writer shows her story through her characters—the way they act, the way they talk, the way they interact. These characters are not cardboard cutouts ordered from Central Casting. They serve a function—or else they shouldn’t have a role and take up valuable space. Types of Characters Two kinds…
by Sylvie Kurtz Hurts So Good According to James Bonnet, a main character’s arc is like a spiral. If it spirals upward, he ends up at a better place than at the beginning of the story, taking him closer to paradise. If it spirals downward, he ends up worse off than where he started, miring…
by Sylvie Kurtz A good bad guy When we set out to create a story, we don’t want to end up with something black-and-white filled with cardboard characters that the reader will forget five minutes after putting down the book. We want a full, blooming story that pops with color and will live on in…
by Sylvie Kurtz Every Hero Needs a Friend Every story is character driven. Even the most explosive of plots needs characters to play against the special effects. Car chases only mean something insofar as we care about what happens to the drivers or the people on the sidelines. Every story has a main character whose…
by Sylvie Kurtz Once Upon a Time . . . Once upon a time; the start of a story plan. I discard as many story ideas as I develop. One way to figure out if a story has enough oomph to carry the weight of a whole novel is to track the basic story line….
by Sylvie Kurtz Motivation “Intense desire is the foundation of all achievement,” I read recently in an article. Now the article talked about weight loss, but this statement could also apply to a good story. Intense desire is the foundation of an interesting character and a gripping conflict. Start with the Why Does your main…
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