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12 Great Ways to Find Story Ideas

ByKathrese McKee September 1, 2022September 8, 2022

Let’s go over twelve great ways to find story ideas for your story idea notebook. Never face the blinking cursor of doom again.

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Finding Your Mirror Moment

ByKathrese McKee August 9, 2022September 8, 2022

The mirror moment in a story is when the main character experiences a moment of clarity that pushes them to change direction. It is the turning point.

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Make a Scene in a Good Way

ByKathrese McKee July 20, 2022September 8, 2022

Scenes are the building blocks of novel writing. If you master writing scenes, your stories will be unputdownable. Riveting. Engaging. If you are an experienced author, you know these things, but every fiction author must learn how to write a good scene. How to Write a Scene To start off, I will answer a newbie…

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Don’t Call It an Outline

ByKathrese McKee January 28, 2018September 4, 2022

Back when I first played around with the idea of writing a book, I opened up a spiral and started writing a story I thought my kids would enjoy. Every spare moment—at games and doctor visits and during lunch—I would invent problems for my characters to solve and things for them to say. I was…