Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray discusses what is perhaps the most important part of any story — the final crisis before the act 2 climax. Learn how to bring your characters to their lowest point using their inherent flaws and set the stage for an … More Lesson 23: Act 2 – Crisis
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks about what to do when you hit the halfway point in your story: how to use this moment to increase the effect of your crisis and climax, improve pacing in the second act, and give your plot a greater … More Lesson 22: Act 2 – Midpoint Marvels
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks plot reversals and revelations, how to twist your story without losing your reader, and ways to effectively set up big story payoffs in your own writing. For more info about the show, check out homesteadonthecorner.com Help support … More Lesson 21: Act 2 – Revelations and Reversals
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 the final episode in our act 1 series, Wray discusses the break into act two: how to send your characters into the unknown and prepare the reader for their journey of change. See how the classical act structure is based in the psychological … More Lesson 16: Act 1 – Liftoff
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray 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 Learn how to design compelling plots for your stories based on the relationship between character wants and needs, utilizing character development to give your narrative momentum and structure. For more info about the show, check out www.homesteadonthecorner.com Help support the show at www.patreon.com/homesteadcorner Script Outtakes
Welcome to the companion vlog for Homestead on the Corner! Learn what exactly a Homestead on the Corner is (hint: it’s a podcast) and what it might become. Mostly just me blathering on about my hopes and dreams, so… yeah. Vlogging. Music by Lauren Baker
Hello everyone! Trevor here. Sorry to say there won’t be a full post this week – my focus has been pulled a hundred different directions recently, and writing a new blog was not one of them. Add to that the fact that I got a week behind on writing the script for the next podcast … More Growing Pains
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Learn to create compelling, multilayered, and deeply human characters using the Planet Character model. Self-published author Wray Van Winkle shares techniques to develop psychologically realistic characters for your own books, stories, and screenplays. Planet Character Diagram: www.homesteadonthecorner.com/podcastextras For more info about the show, check out www.homesteadonthecorner.com … More Lesson 04: Exploring Planet Character
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