How to Use Prologues, Part 4, Does Your Story Need a Prologue?

Image courtesy of Tumisu via Pixabay Hi SErs! It's a day of Harmony here at Story Empire 🙂 Today, I'd like to talk about whether or not your story needs a prologue. Here's a link to the previous post on Prologue Dos and Don'ts So far in this post series we've looked at what a …

Writing Real Dialogue in Fiction

Greetings, SE’ers! Beem Weeks here with you again. Today, I am going to share my thoughts on character dialogue in fiction.  Dialogue. It can make or break a story. Dialogue is the lines your characters speak aloud in a written story. They differ from the narrative voice in that even the peripheral characters are given …

How to Use Prologues, Part 3, Prologue Dos and Don’ts

Image courtesy of Tumisu via Pixabay Hi SErs! It's a day of Harmony here at Story Empire 🙂 Today, I'd like to talk about prologue dos and don'ts. Here's a link to the previous post on What A Prologue Is and Isn't One of the reasons prologues have fallen into ill repute in recent times …

Showing – Not Telling Emotions

  Hi SEers. John here with you today. I’m going to further discuss the idea of giving characters life with gestures. The reason for gestures (or beats as they are sometimes called) is to provide a character some tools to share with the reader without the writer explaining what is going on. These tools can …

How to Use Prologues, Part 2, What A Prologue Is and Isn’t

Image courtesy of Tumisu via Pixabay Hi SErs! It's a day of Harmony here at Story Empire 🙂 Today, I'd like to talk about what a prologue is and is not. Here's a link to the previous post on Prologues Overview. Below is a screenshot of the dictionary definition of the word ... As you …