Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In the first episode of our Act 2 series, Trevor talks about how to use allies and enemies in the extraordinary world to move your protagonist towards the change they need to undergo. Learn how to balance friends and foes in the world of … More Lesson 17: Act 2 – Friends and Foes
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor discusses techniques and ideas for developing characters within the first act of your story. Learn how to create empathy for your protagonist, demonstrate the problems with their ordinary world, and introduce readers to fundamental flaws through character’s reactions to the … More Lesson 15: Act 1 – Countdown
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor talks Inciting Incidents: what they are, how they work, and ways to use them to generate strong narrative momentum. Learn how to put story in motion and pull in your audience with strong disruptions of the protagonist’s world that force … More Lesson 14: Act 1 – Ignition
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Trevor 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, Trevor 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, Trevor 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 In this episode, Trevor 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 In this episode, Trevor 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 develop … More Lesson 09: The Storytelling Imagination
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
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Learn to use the four fundamental forces of plot to design strong, compelling stories that will entertain and engage your reader. Discover strategies for how to ride the line between story science and intuition effectively and tell your stories well. For more info about … More Lesson 07: Plot Mechanics
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