Janet Fox
Protagonist, antagonist, rising and falling action, arc of change, emotion—all must be developed in a picture book, and in under ...
Limit telling to between-scene summaries. In-scene, showing is what pulls readers into your story through clear actions and emotions ...
When we let the reader fill in our intentionally left blanks, or “gray space”, we invite them inside our imaginary ...
For a memorable story, give your main character a strong motive, a flaw, and a series of escalating decisions leading ...
To be vivid on the page, each character you write should display life-long emotional responses to wounds that occurred in ...