Expansion Pack: Changing times

https://youtu.be/e7qQ6_RV4VQ Hi gang, Craig here once more with another Expansion Pack. This one has to do with setting, but it's as much a mental setting as a physical one. It's based upon the stress that changing times bring. I've lived long enough to remember bashing the side of the black & white television to make …

Where You Can Find Content for Your Newsletter

Hello and happy Monday to all the Story Empire readers. PH here and back this week with more about newsletters. There are two previous posts about this topic which you can find here and here. Newsletter content is the topic today, one with which a lot of writers surprisingly struggle. Well, maybe not everyone, but …

Surprise, it’s a case study

Hi Gang. Craig here again, breaking rules left and right. I’m surprising my colleagues today, because I’m supposed to pick apart a book cover. We have assignments on Fridays, and I don’t feel like it today. We can learn a lot from covers, but I think that knowledge is finite. We’ve talked before about the …

Choosing a Setting and Getting it Right

Hi, SE Readers. Joan here today to talk about settings and making them realistic. Lots of things occur behind the scenes before an author published a novel. Whether the writer is a planner or a panster, he or she must decide a few things such as genre, character names, and premise before beginning to write …

The three legged stool of writing

If you've been reading my posts here, you know that I love a good analogy. Today is no different, and we're going to talk about the three legged stool of writing. Think of the seat like it's your story. That's the only part someone is likely to consider if they sit on the stool, and …