The Writer's Workout

Writing a story is like sculpting a statue, carefully chiseling away at ideas to break them down and create something new and whole....

Have you ever been reading a story and you can’t put it down? The plot is engaging, the characters are dynamic, and then just as you’re flying through the pages, the puzzle pieces finally click together, your mouth drops open, and you internally (or externally, I don’t judge) just go, “WOAH.”  That’s the “Aha!” moment, or as we call it in writing, the full circle of foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is when the writer starts to hint at what is to come. This device is used for many

The dust settles as the hero defeats villain after villain before continuing their quest to defeat the antagonist. What happens then?...