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#storycraft — Public Fediverse posts
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💡 Craft tip: Cut every “very.” Replace it with one vivid verb or image. Precision always beats padding.
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🕯️ Craft tip: When revising, read your story backwards, paragraph by paragraph. You’ll catch echoes, patterns, and lazy sentences.
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🧠 Craft tip: Don’t just describe settings, activate them. Make the wind whisper secrets, the floorboards remember names, the light tell time.
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🎭 Tip: Conflict doesn’t always mean fighting. Sometimes it’s a smile hiding a secret.
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💡 Tip: The best stories don’t tell emotions, they trigger them. Let readers feel before they understand.
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💬 Tip: Read your dialogue out loud. If you stumble, so will your readers. Smooth it till it sings. 🎶
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📚 Writing tip: Description isn’t about listing details. It’s about mood. A room can be “messy” or it can be “a battlefield of forgotten dreams.”
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📌 Writing tip: Plotters, steal from pantsers. Pantsers, steal from plotters. Balance = the sweet spot where stories sing. 🎶
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💡 Tip: Start scenes late and leave them early. Readers don’t need the small talk, drop them right into the fire.
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I feel like #Storycraft on #SecondWind is kind of underrated. This is a really interesting interview with the duo behind #BlackTabbyGames on creating interactive storylines that makes NPCs feel like real people and not just resources used in a puzzle:
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dkY8etQ4yVk
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What makes an antagonist truly powerful?
It's not just brute force—it's vulnerability. Their pain. Their regret. Their why. 💥
Check out today’s #TonyTipsTuesdays post and discover why a villain who feels can be more threatening than one who doesn’t.
#WritingCommunity #WritersLife #CharacterDesign #AntagonistGoals #StoryCraft #bookstodon
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#Audiobooks #Ebook #StoryTime #AudiobookLovers #DigitalBooks #Storytelling #AudiobookCommunity #EbookLovers #ShortStories #StoryInspiration #EbookReader #AudiobookAddict #StoryWriting #EbookPromo #StoryCraft
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#MicroTales #60SecondStories #BiteSizedFiction #HorrorStories #ActionTales #ComedyFiction #DarkFiction #ThrillerReads #FunnyStories #SuspenseTales #LaughAndScream #GenreMashup #MixedGenre #IndieWriter #WritersOfTwitter #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #Storyteller #AuthorLife #ContentCreator #WritingInspiration #AmWriting #StoryCraft #RumbleCreators #RumbleStories #VideoStorytelling #AudiobookLovers #HorrorFans #ComedyLovers #ActionJu
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New #WritingWithMirrors video!
This one is about when you're *trying* to find a mirroring — some interesting aspect of a character that you can home in on, something you can reflect in other characters — but you're just coming up empty.
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New video on #WritingWithMirrors!
There's a scene in GLASS ONION that explains the entire movie—and it's not one of Benoit Blanc's big reveals.
I do a deep dive into GLASS ONION's opening sequence,
which uses mirrors in four different ways at once.
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New #WritingWithMirrors video!
Some mirrors you build from the ground up.
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New #WritingWithMirrors video 😁
A quick example, showing how to bounce off one character and come up with great mirror characters for them — or, figure out new mirrors between characters you've already got.
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New storycraft video: WRITING WITH MIRRORS!
This one is about the power of similarity and contrast.
It's how different parts of a story can reflect each other, echo each other, connect to each other.For writers, readers, and anyone who loves thinking about how stories work.
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I've got to the end of the story I want to tell in this (my first) #novella, but I have more questions than answers about how to deliver the payoffs at the end. It's very much a first draft to throw away.
I've finished it feeling pleased with having written 30,000 words, and dismayed to discover how little I know about #storycraft. I have lots of notes for things I want to improve, and somewhat fewer ideas for how to achieve it.
Still! A finished draft! Sort of!
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@katlewis on three things she learned while writing video games that made her a better novelist:
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@mkhardywrites I have a shelf full of reference books on #StoryCraft, and have taken numerous classes, but I'm an #ObligatePantser and this means using #scapple to figure out the story beats after I've already done the first draft. With longer work, I do this in chunks. #AmWriting
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I am finally, finally reading Stephen King's "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." It's a masterclass.
The story opens with a three-page intro from the narrator, the guy in prison "who can get stuff".
And in those three pages, tells SO MANY tiny, snippet-y stories. Which tell us all about what we're in for.Seriously. Read those three pages.
Count how many separate, individual stories you're being told.
It's glorious.Example:
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Lincoln Michel, on extraneous actions and stage directions—why authors use them, and why not to.
"I have a not-terribly-intellectual principle for my own fiction writing, which is that sentences should strive to do “double duty.” That is, they should function on at least two narrative levels."
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/clearing-up-the-clutter-on-removing
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Hello, Mastodon!
I'm Ziv Wities—programmer, reader, and Assistant Editor at @diabolicalplots .I love talking about stories, and I love talking about storycraft. By way of #introduction, here's some talks I'm working on:
- Understanding Story Structure (with the many, many Discworld subseries)
- Mirroring (on how stories use similarity and contrast)
- Worldbuilding Gamesalso, I will join/found short story discussion clubs on sight, fyi