You can spend hours planning your story, fleshing out your characters, drawing maps, making notes of all your foreshadowing points – but then you get to actually putting pen to paper (or hand to keyboard) and suddenly you have no idea where to start. So what is the best way to go about it?
Month: June 2020
Words on Words: An Unkindness of Ravens
Chloe Rhodes’ book ‘An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns’, despite being about words, language, and the history of, is quite a bit different to other books I have reviewed before. If, like me, your first encounter with this book was right next to another collective nouns book that uses a totally different word for ravens, and been a little bit put off by it. I can’t say the other book is less worth your time, I can say this one definitely is.
Thoughts on Writing: Character’s Stories
There are a million and one things to think about when it comes to making a character. There’s the basics: gender, age, name, where they’re from, what they want, strengths, weaknesses… All things you could make a handy-dandy chart about. You could even make a D&D style character sheet if you wanted. But these are just details, and your character is first and foremost a tool for storytelling. This is why the character story is so important.
a place of words 