Month: October 2016

Hi all! So recently I composed an article for The Procrastiwriter.com on how to write a great closing line. Here is a little snippet. If you want to read the full article, I will provide a link down below. Thanks for stopping by! “He loved Big Brother.” George Orwell—1984 Possibly the most famous closing line...

The narrator: that unseen, often nameless character who somehow knows everything that’s happening and what everyone is thinking. Unless you’re writing from first person perspective, in which case the narrator is one of your characters, the narrator is that omnipresent “being”, who exists only to narrate the events transpiring in the story.      One...

When you write a work of fiction, you create an entirely different world. Your reader, a total stranger to this “new world” requires a guide. That is where point of view, or POV comes into play. What are you going to allow your reader to “see”? What will you allow them to “hear”? What will...

The opening line has often been called the “pitch”. It is the point at which you need to sell your story. I personally do not agree. You are not selling with the opening line. You’re buying. You’re buying time with your reader. If an opening line is compelling enough, the reader will continue on to...