The First Draft Pro Blog
We freaking love stories
You do too? Well, well, well. That smells like BFF potential.
How to use the Kubler-Ross stages of grief in your story
Implementing the stages of grief to depict character development and conflict.
6 approaches to finishing your first draft
Strategies for completing the initial version of your manuscript.
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How to write humour (a brief overview)
Techniques for incorporating humor into your narrative effectively.
A complete guide to book tropes – including a list of 20+ tropes you can use
Utilizing and subverting common narrative themes and devices effectively.
The 2 ways you can introduce your inciting incident
Strategies for presenting the initiating event of your narrative.
A foolproof formula for writing a inciting incidents
Crafting compelling events that set the narrative in motion.
How to know what you can leave out/not dramatize
Identifying non-essential elements that can be omitted from the narrative.
A short guide to the unreliable narrator
Understanding and implementing narrators with compromised reliability.
How to use repetition to support your narrative
Employing repetition as a tool for emphasis and theme development.