Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray discusses ways to use the opening of your narrative to pull readers into your story with effective hooks, questions, and setups that will strengthen and enhance your plot, characters, and structure. Learn how and when to use cold opens, prologues, … More Lesson 13: Act 1 – The Hook
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In the season finale of Homestead on the Corner, Wray offers advice and encouragement on how to keep writing in difficult times, ways to make creative writing a habit, and strategies to stick with and finish long-form projects. For more info about the show, … More Lesson 12: Keep Writing
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks about how finding and strengthening the central thematic premise of your story can help direct creative choices, strengthen and clarify your plotline, and create a stronger effect on your readers. For more info about the show, check out www.homesteadonthecorner.com Help … More Lesson 11: The Power of Premise
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts CONTENT WARNING: Depiction of a disaster, discussions of suicide, gun violence, and some strong language. After she is saved from a devastating earthquake by the superhero Silverman, reporter Lera Lynn begins work on an investigative report focusing on him. As they begin their final … More Story 10: The Silver Age
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray discusses the meaning created by your Story World, how to organically create it out of your central idea, and different techniques to make it more compelling to your reader. For more info about the show, check out www.homesteadonthecorner.com Help support the … More Lesson 10: Building the Story World
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts At the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, ex-pirate turned pirate-hunter Eli Barrett is found adrift at sea, raving that the infamous Anne Bonny is still alive. As he tells the captain his story, a bizarre tale of sea battles, shipwrecks, and the … More Story 09: Siren’s Gold
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray discusses sources of inspiration, the imaginative work at the heart of all writing, healthy creative habits, and how to put your subconscious mind to work in the realm of storytelling. Learn how to listen when ideas come, capture them, and … More Lesson 09: The Storytelling Imagination
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts CONTENT WARNING: Strong language and thematic elements. Twenty years after an apocalyptic storm left the world in ruins, a mysterious scientist wanders into the small settlement of Holy Cross, Alaska. There he finds a reluctant ally in a brilliant young tavern-girl, but finds that … More Story 08 – Worlds After
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, learn how to break down plot structure into its parts to understand how it works, and how to rebuild it more effectively. Using beat, scene, act, and sequence structure to effectively pace the events in your story, your plot will become … More Lesson 08: Finding the Framework – Plot Structure
CONTENT WARNING: Discussions and depictions of illness and death, depression, mental health issues, and suicidal ideation. I’d like to introduce you all to an old friend of mine. He’s been gone a long time, and though I didn’t want him to come back, there’s something oddly comfortable about his presence. He’s a known quantity, an … More Continue?
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