Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor follows up on the importance of cause and effect with two examples of scenes that violate the Law of Cause and Effect. As a review, Taylor defines the Law of Cause and Effect as: Characters only act or react (the effect) in […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the importance of cause and effect and delivers a useful rule for building scenes. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, we once again tackle chapter and scene openings, this time with an example that’s missing some of the critical elements we’ve discussed over the past few episodes. If you’re going to do our first-ever creative writing assignment, please email her at contact at […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Steve asks the questions he didn’t have the time to ask over the course of the past three episodes about scene and chapter openings. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor shares some additional thoughts on the opening sequence of chapter one of The Innocent, book two in her Vanessa Michael Munroe series. In this episode, she uses a third framework to examine the opening sequence and shows how we can use the […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor shares some additional thoughts on the opening sequence of chapter one of The Innocent, book two in her Vanessa Michael Munroe series. In this episode, she uses two different frameworks to examine the opening sequence and shows how we can use the […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the opening sequence of chapter one of The Innocent, book two in her Vanessa Michael Munroe series. In this episode and the next, she uses three different frameworks to examine the opening sequence and shows how we can […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on what readers (and for that matter authors) are willing to accept from protagonists. If you have questions or suggestions for future shows, we’d love to hear from you. You can leave your suggestions as comments or find our […]

Thanks so much for joining us again this week! In this episode, Taylor shares her thoughts on the difference between organic storytelling and ticking things off a ‘story building’ checklist. We discuss the difference between the two and how to move beyond ticking off check boxes to improving our organic story building skills. If you […]

In this episode, Taylor expands on the ideas she shared in episode 213 and explains how we can be sure our description serves the correct purpose in scenes. Taylor mentioned the following episodes at the beginning of the episode: 206 – Avoiding The Two Extremes when it Comes to Writing Description 211 – Avoiding Character […]