This week on the Story Works Round Table, Alida, Kathryn, & Robert discuss the ways in which story is all around us. What is it that makes story so pervasive? How can we use this essential nature of story in our writing? What is the difference between telling someone facts and creating a story? Will giving our supporting characters a story of their own strengthen our protagonist’s story?
To make your novel work, your protagonist and antagonist need to stick together. If they aren’t sticky, the conflict will fail. This week on the Story Works Round Table, we discuss what keeps the wheels under your plot turning.
This week on the Story Works Round Table, we talk tropes. What is a trop anyway? Why are they so misunderstood? How should you use them in your novels? Can you use them artistically? Even in genre fiction?
This week’s Story Works podcast is all about fiction. Hear an author read an original short story, then chat about the piece’s inspiration, challenges, and craft. A podcast for readers, writers, and readers curious about writers! Guest Host Carlee Tressel interviews Alida Winternheimer about her work, Saving Annabelle on the Story Works Reading Series.
Is your protagonist up to all the challenges your plot is throwing at her? Or is everything a little too easy?
How do you create a character who’s tough enough to survive, but not so darn competent at everything that she becomes unbelievable and unsympathetic? This week on the Story Works Round Table writing podcast, we delve into creating sufficient challenges commensurate with your character’s abilities and more!