How To Find Your Story Conflict – Video
On the Siren Stories YouTube Channel, JJ Barnes presents The Table Read creative writing advice series. In today's video, she…
Why Schools Make A Perfect Story Setting
Written by JJ Barnes www.jjbarnes.co.uk When you ask people how their time at school went, you’re likely to get one…
How To Write Perseverance As A Character Trait
Your characters will all have different qualities. You need to give your characters distinct personalities to ensure they are clean…
How To Write Magical Schools In Urban Fantasy
Urban fantasy is a genre where fantasy creations, such as witches and monsters, exist within our normal mundane world. Sometimes…
How To Write Personality Quirks
Your characters need to represent a real to life experience of being around people. Characters that read as artificial will…
How To Shape Characters With Emotional Bruises
Your characters need to feel like real people, so I teach you how to use emotional bruises to shape your…
How To Use The Advice Of Write Drunk And Edit Sober
If you've been exploring different kinds of writing advice, you'll no doubt have come across the advice to write drunk…
How To Develop Your Characters By What Your Story Needs
When you first start writing your story, you'll probably go in knowing who your Protagonist is. Your protagonist is the…
How To Write Characters Who Feel Alive Beyond The Limitations Of Your Story
The characters of your story are the main draw for your audience. Your plot and world can be fascinating, but…
How To Keep Your Story Conflict Active In Every Scene
Your story follows your Protagonist on a journey to achieve a story goal, and your Antagonist trying to stop them.…
How To Write A Successful Protagonist Partnership
On The Table Read, “The Best Book Reader Magazine in the UK“, author JJ Barnes describes what a Protagonist Partnership…
Top Ways To Build An Emotional Bond With Your Audience
On The Table Read, “The Best Book Reader Magazine in the UK“, author JJ Barnes shares her tips for how…
Top Reasons To Rip Away Your Character’s Emotional Support System
When you start your story, you will most likely put in an emotional support system around your Protagonist. You give…
Top Reasons Why Your Audience Will Love A Character Who Will Risk It All
To make sure your audience is fully invested in seeing if your Protagonist gets what they want, you need to…
Top Reasons Why Side Adventures Make Your Audience Stop Caring
Keeping your audience caring about this story, these characters, is essential. It means they'll finish this story, then trust you…