Month: Mar 2022

• How to Find Fantasy in the Real World: A Conversation with V.E. Schwab

  The ProWritingAid team ran another amazing Fantasy Writers’ Week earlier this month. I loved joining the live events whenever I could, but they had so many great sessions that I couldn’t keep up! Fortunately for us, all sessions were recorded and made available afterwards so I could catch up on those I missed due to…

  G B Ralph

  31 Mar 2022

  Reading, Writing

  Advice, Author interview, Books, Fantasy, Inspiration, Motivation, ProWritingAid, Reading, V.E. Schwab, Writing

• Show your villain is powerful without killing your hero: 4 options

  Hero vs villain. Good vs evil. Protagonist vs antagonist. Friend vs foe. How can we make our villains big and bad and dangerous without wiping out our main character in the first scene? That’d make for a rather short and unsatisfying story. Where’s the drama, the tension, the stakes?! It hardly gives us time to…

  G B Ralph

  28 Mar 2022

  Writing

  Batman, Hannibal, Heroes, James Bond, Star Wars, The Last Airbender, TikTok, Villains, Writers, Writing advice

• When scenes become chapters

  Throughout the drafting process for my cosy mystery novel – placeholder title: Milverton Mysteries 1 – I’ve been working in scenes. But as I prepare to bring in some fresh eyes, it’s time to organise these scenes into chapters. I’ve grouped some scenes, split others, and otherwise set about ending each chapter with the reader…

  G B Ralph

  14 Mar 2022

  Writing

  Books, Chapters, Drafting, Editing, Milverton Mysteries, NaNoWriMo, Novels, Scenes, Structure, Writing