Start a Story
Whether you’re just starting your first story or your 16th, you’re in the right place. This is where you’ll find our most useful and recent articles on how to start (and finish) a story.
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Essential Writing
If you want to start a story but aren’t sure how, where – or even whether to start – this is your resource. Find out what you need to know about the craft and the industry to get started on the right foot.
10 Must-Haves for a Solid Illustrated Storybook
Without structure a storybook falls apart, or lets us down in some way, lacking the kind of Good Stuff we find in our favorite storybooks. Here’s a list of 10 things every illustrated storybook should have no matter what – so that your book can be a favorite.
How to Write First Person Narrative
Your narrator is arguably the most important character you create, because they are how we get the story. Find out the fine details of crafting a first-person narrator and how to write a first person narrative that knocks the socks off your readers!
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Watch Your Language!
There are seven important things to keep in mind when crafting the language of your story. Here’s how to be demographic-specific and language conscientious as a storyteller.
Write an Awesome Inciting Incident: 3 things to do
An inciting incident is the single plot point that launches a protagonist out of their status quo and into the adventure they’re about to undertake. Absolutely every story must have one of these.
What Makes Heinrich Hoffmann Stories Classic?
Amy Koerner shares with us SIX key things that make the stories of Heinrich Hoffmann such lasting and successful classics.
