Last week we learned how to plot wrong. That was fun! Now we all know how to do it so nobody will ever be interested and our stories will never get published, much less read.
Interestingly enough, when I wrote this whole series two years ago it was the post on how to characterize wrong that got all the attention.
So I’m going to send you on over to that original post to find out why.
What you’ll learn over there is something I learned—not by reading lots of books on writing or taking lots of classes or attending a lot of writers workshops or following lots of blogs—but by studying storytelling. Novels. Stories. Ballads.
The real thing.
And I want to remind you: you should be learning the bulk of your craft this way too.
It’s all about the real thing.
Next week we talk about how to write wrong.
And the week after that we talk about how to revise wrong.
Plus, of course, we need 9 Ways to Find the Time to Write.