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The setting of our story is important!

Janet Wilson of Dernier Publishing (Christian fiction for kids and teens) discusses the importance of choosing a compelling setting to enhance your story, and how it can increase reader engagement.

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Getting descriptions right can be tricky. Janet Wilson of Dernier Publishing gives 7 tips to help you write great descriptions for your stories.

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Do you need an antagonist in your story?

Not necessarily!

Listen to this podcast episode to find some other ways of introducing conflict into your stories.

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In one of our recent Writers for a Reason Unite groups, one of the things we talked about was weaving a message into our stories. How do we do this gently, with respect? After all, we are not here to persuade, as much as allow readers to think through issues of faith, and make up their own minds.

Of course, as Christians, we would love everyone to share our faith! But not everyone will choose to do so, and that’s between them and God – our job is to simply to share our story.

This episode will help you think about how you can weave a brilliant message into a story your readers will love.

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We usually start of with a good idea of what our characters look like. But what about other parts of their personality?

Here's a writing exercise for you to do, that will help you get to know your characters better.

Try this in your writers' groups as well as on your own!

Hear you again soon,

Janet

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With your theme and message in mind, how will your protagonist, and any other characters, change during the course of your story?

How will they be different at the end, than they were at the beginning?

How will you show the difference?

Listen to the podcast and get some tips!

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Keeping up the pace in our stories is essential, if we want to hold our readers' attention.

This is even more true today than it was a few years ago!

So how can we do this?

Here are some fun creative writing tips, to help your story zip along at a great pace!

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This may sound like a daft question, but knowing who you want to write for, and why, is an important foundation for our writing.

We can have what we think is a brilliant idea for a story, but will it resonate with our target audience?

This episode will help you narrow down your target audience and get your mission statement sorted... resulting in clarity - and that's a wonderful thing!

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