The First Editing Podcast

Check each scene and determine if the characters in the scene are in motion. If the characters are not in motion, recommend revising the scene with motion to add depth to the reader experience.

Discover how to use the Characters in Motion of a fiction story and share how you can improve your writing now.

Learn more here: https://firstediting.com/Characters-in-Motion-with-Kristina-Stanley

Knowing what the Point of View character learns in the scene will help you evaluate the character arc and plot choices.

Discover how to use the POV Knowledge Gained of a fiction story and share how you can improve your writing now.

Watch it here: https://firstediting.com/POV-Knowledge-Gained-with-Kristina-Stanley

When an editor and author or writer is designing a story, it is best to consider the story arc. The story arc is essential in creating a story, most successfully published books have all followed the story arc. 

In this episode, we will be discussing an important key scene in a story arc which is the Inciting Incident with Kristina Stanley of Fictionary. An author must know and be able to identify his/her inciting incident and must find ways to figure it out since it keeps the readers involve in the story that they are reading.

Listen to this episode of the Story Arc Series and learn more about the Inciting Incident and its importance in a story. 

Highlights:

[00:17] What is a story arc and why is it important

[01:18] Inciting Incident: What is it all about and its importance

[02:30] Example of an Inciting Incident in Gonegirl and Twilight

[04:40] How can you identify an inciting incident

Links:

https://www.firstediting.com/our-editors/joellen/

https://fictionary.co/

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

We know how "Story Arc" is very important in describing in our books. This podcast tells you how you can make this element memorable and how we should be using and implementing this.

Discover how to use the element “Story Arc” in a story to improve your writing now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

Your story writing completion could mean a lot of work to be done but these professional editors can help you ease that out!

Kristina and JoEllen, the master editors, are here to keep you going and they definitely would like to make your story better and exciting as it should be.

Discover how professional editors can help in your fiction writing to improve your story now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

We know how "Emotional Impact" is very important in describing in our books. This podcast tells you how you can make this element memorable and how we should be using and implementing this.

Discover how to use the element “Emotional Impact” in a story to improve your writing now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

We know how "Location Split" is very important in describing in our books. This podcast tells you how you can make this element memorable and how we should be using and implementing this.

Discover how to use the element “Location Split” in a story to improve your writing now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

We know how "Weather" is very important in describing in our books. This podcast tells you how you can make this element memorable and how we should be using and implementing this.

Discover how to use the element “Weather” in a story to improve your writing now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

Touch can do a lot for you and in helping the reader experience the story world.

It can make them feel empathy for a character instill fear in the reader, it can make the character and hence the reader model for something so touch is a really powerful sense because we all fear certain physical touch and we all love certain physical touch. Right? So it's got that full spectrum of extreme emotion associated with it. 

We know how touch is very important in describing in our books. This podcast tells you how you can make the 'sense of taste' memorable and how we should be using and implementing this type of sense.

Discover how to use the element “Sense of Touch” in a story to improve your writing now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.

Whether you’re a fiction writer or professional editor, this series is for you!

Taste is like all of the other senses, you want to use it in a sense that's related to the plot. Use it to show emotion - it can trigger a memory, use it with lovers sharing intimate moments - just that you wanted to bring the scene alive but the main thing is to relate it to the story.

We know how taste is very important in describing in our books. This podcast tells you how you can make the 'sense of taste' memorable and how we should be using and implementing this type of sense.

Discover how to use the element “Sense of Taste” in a story to improve your writing now.

PS. Follow us on YouTube to get the full 38 Story Elements Educational Series. We release a new episode each week! 

You can also watch the episode here.