My Writing Journey: Part 2

My Writing Journey: Part 2

Since 2020, things have changed drastically when it comes to my writing. Before I was struggling to get anyone to read anything I wrote and now I’m only mildly struggling. But seriously though, things have changed and certainly for the better. In August of 2021, my...
Writing 101: Character Arcs

Writing 101: Character Arcs

A character arc is the internal journey of a character that happens over the course of the story. The character starts the story one way and ends the story another way. Simply put, it is the character’s personal transformation that happens because of events in the...
Writing 101: The Three-act Structure

Writing 101: The Three-act Structure

The three-act structure explained as simply as possible is a means for dividing a story into three separate parts. Those parts being, Act One “the Setup”, Act Two “the Confrontation”, and Act Three “the Resolution”. The Setup includes the inciting incident, which is...
My Writing Journey

My Writing Journey

My Writing Journey: Writing isn’t easy but somebody has to do it. My first fictional story was written in elementary school when our homework assignment was to take the “vocabulary words” we were learning that week and turn them into a story. I wrote about the fourth...