D for distance, happy we’ve got 2 more Ds?
Create a chain of events, with distance First comes the study of your characters, now it’s time to create some distance between them and their objectives. They start existing, walking, speaking, lighting a cigarette, or obsessively emptying a whole pack of gum. You started talking to them, and now...
Your dialogue is alive!
Scene and dialogue Let’s speak about dialogue. We have an idea of whom our characters are and set the scene for them; now, they speak and we got to know them better through the subtext. And what is better to uncover the subtext then a well written dialogue? So, the...
Build your tree
If you want to build your tree, start from the roots We realized that to start writing a story, making your tree grow, isn’t that easy, even having the right tools. But what is the content of your story? It comes from your everyday life, inspired by something you...
Where and when, or settings 2
Where and when? Let’s discover the 5 Ws first Now, suppose you studied journalism as I did, where and when would have a different meaning to you. In that case, it’ll come naturally to you to think about where and when, or what is happening in a story even...
Power up your character
Your character is that important? Welcome to the most exciting part of your writing journey, where you get to create characters. As a writer, you may have experienced talking to yourself multiple times before, not just under the shower. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it happens to you...
The portrait
The first painting he sold. Did he sell a portrait? No, he didn’t sell anything. That was his wife job. He made a portrait, an array of futility and he hated it from the very beginning. He produced it reluctantly while his nose was bleeding, forgetting even to eat,...
A girl to End it
A girl with a shotgun A sixteen-year-old girl stands in front of him, her smoking gun still in her hands. She looks at him with an inquisitive face. “Y-yes, thank you. I don’t know what that old woman wanted from me.” “Can I have an autograph, please?” “S-sure, young...
Japanese mimic people
Lost in metro This is part 2, read part 1 first! This time, I have an excuse, and a good one: I’m super tired, and in this metro, they write only in ancient Japanese writing. And as you can guess, I know about the Japanese language as Japanese people...
Kill the aliens!
The aliens matter “Gentlemen and ladies.” Started the Head. The whole Parliament got quiet at once, for curiosity more than out of simple fear or respect for him. You could listen only to the purring of the Head’s cat. “We are here reunited today to speak about the aliens’...
Interview with the alien
An interview, that’s all we need to know them Don’t think even for a moment that all of this went fast. No, the red button of fear needed to be touched softly and the fear to grow slowly inside you, like a flower or the grass in a garden....
