The 8 essential elements of a story

One of TVWriter™’s favorite writers – and writing consultants – is here with a guide to storytelling that every single one of us needs to memorize (or maybe even worship?)

This is Kurt Vonnegut’s classic diagram. We find Nathan Bransford’s take more helpful. For reals.

by Nathan Bransford

Not only do I find editing novels and helping authors achieve their vision incredibly meaningful, it’s such an interesting exercise because it forces you to think very deeply about storytelling.

It’s a wonderful challenge to be forced to articulate what’s working and not working in a story and, most importantly, why it’s not working. read article

‘How to Publish a Book’

TVWriter™ favorite Nathan Bransford’s new book is out.

How to Publish a Book is a guide to something many of our visitors want to know more than just about anything else in the world (except perhaps how to get an agent), and accompanying it is Nathan’s explicit promise that if this volume doesn’t tell you everything you need to know, all you have to do is:

Reach out to me and I’ll do my best to help you out! read article