Planning Your Story’s Setting The Importance of Your Story World If you’ve finished Lesson 1 and discovered the goal, motivation and conflict for your story, you need to think about the setting. The setting plays an important role in the story since it anchors the reader in a time and place and provides a foundation. Several […]
Writing Lesson 1 – What’s the Big Idea?
August 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever heard of the shortest stories never written? A Woodcutter’s Life by Tim Burr Pirate Gold by Barry D. Treasure Snakes in Tall Grass by Leva Malone My Struggle with Insomnia by Anita Knapp Pitfalls of Procrastination by Ida Dunmore You get the idea…once you get past the title, there’s not much to […]
