Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks about how to develop your supporting cast, create compelling subplots, and find the organic structure of your narrative. Learn how to humanize the bit parts of your stories and why it’s so important to treat characters like real people … More Lesson 20: Act 2 – Subplots and Somebodies
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks about the distinction between villains and antagonists, how to humanize them in the story, and ways to create memorable, necessary opponents for your protagonist. For more info about the show, check out homesteadonthecorner.com Help support the show at http://www.patreon.com/homesteadcorner … More Lesson 19: Act 2 – The Big Bad
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In the first episode of our Act 2 series, Wray 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, Wray 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, 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 Learn how characters can change, grow, and evolve in the course of a story by using the character wheel, character arcs, and the Value Circle. Self-published author Wray Van Winkle discusses her methods for understanding and creating interesting character journeys. Character Development Diagram: www.homesteadonthecorner.com/podcastextras For … More Lesson 05: Wheels, Arcs, and Circles of Character Development
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Learn to develop complex characters in your book, script, or screenplay using the Character Web – the network of supporting characters built around the protagonist. Self-published author Wray Van Winkle breaks down basic character types and ways to show, rather than tell, the reader … More Lesson 03: Building the Character Web
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