Creating Meaning through Subplots
Take the question you discovered through Duelling Aphorisms and Double-Sided Questions, and use subplots to turn the answer into a story, not a lecture. The Second [...]
Duelling Aphorisms and Double-Sided Questions
How to design subplots that actively explore a story’s philosophical question. The Second Act Challenge Writing the second act of a story is often the writer’s biggest [...]
Paint your Minor Characters Boldly
Every minor character in your story is the central character in their own story, who just happened to stray into your story Don’t ‘bland’ your secondary [...]
