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Writers Helping Writers: Presenting to Writing Groups

by Eldred “Bob” Bird

Photograph of a large room filled with tables occupied by people watching a presentation on a screen at the front, a videographer off to the side and lights to illuminate the guest.

Now that the country has pretty much opened up again, the opportunities to present to writer’s groups in person are opening up as well. I recently had the chance to get back up in front of a group for the first time since the shutdown and I must admit, it felt a little foreign.… Read the post

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Explore the Deep Structure of Story

By Leon Conrad

"We are made of stories" written on a napkin next to coffee cup and pen

We’ve been telling stories way before we started writing them down.

The structures they follow are embodied within us.

There’s much we can learn about story—and about ourselves—from analysing the patterns that stories follow.

But how?

Tracing the Path of Story

My approach is to trace the patterns that each character in a story follows.… Read the post

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Media Software for Writers That Won’t Break the Bank

by Eldred “Bob” Bird

woman in front of a video camera for an interview

Video has become such a powerful tool on social media that authors, whether independent or traditionally published, can’t afford to ignore the medium. In one of my previous posts here on WITS, I talked about building a Mobile Media Kit to make recording videos on the go easier.… Read the post

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What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Coups, Part I

by Piper Bayard

One of the most common elements of fiction writing is some type of faction vs. faction conflict, whether we are writing about a change of regime in a local PTA, a kingdom, a modern republic, or interstellar empires.… Read the post

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What to Do When Writer’s Block Shifts Shapes

by Stefan Emunds

Note: To avoid confusing readers, the author of these articles avoided the alternation of she and her and he and him. Instead, he uses the nonexclusive she and her to mean writer and reader.

This is the sixth and last article of the article series The Yin and Yang Relationship Between Psychology and Storytelling. … Read the post

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