Writing Advice
Plot Structures: Predictable or Helpful?
Girl meets boy. This is a basic romance plot structure. I want to address your immediate instinct which is to roll your eyes and complain, ‘It’s so predictable.’
When it comes to stories, predictability is generally considered a bad thing. Would you read a book if you knew the ending? You said no, right?..
How To Get Over Writer's Block
Every writer’s heart stops when I utter the words, ‘writer’s block’.
We’re ready to write: we have our tea, our snacks, our pens and we’ve told everyone in the house we’ll be writing upstairs. But then we sit down. We munch on our snacks and stare at the incessant blinking of the cursor on MS Word.
We're people. We have lives. We’re constantly distracted by our phones, friends, families and work...