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Establish Characters’ Intentions in Every Scene – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for June 10, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Establish Characters’ Intentions in Every Scene Every time you start a story, you want to quickly establish a problem for the main character to solve and their intention of solving it. Maybe a hacked up dead body is found, and a detective intends to bring the murderer to justice. Possibly a divorced woman…
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Great Writing Quotes by Poet Elizabeth Bishop
It takes so many thousands of things coming together at the right moment just to make a poem that no one could ever really separate, and say this did this, that did that. People say I am a perfectionist. The truth is that I often return to a poem started months or years before. I…
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Allow Main Character to Experience Crisis of Faith – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for June 3, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Allow Main Character to Experience Crisis of FaithA man vs. himself conflict often elevates a story’s suspense and depth. When a character must face a confrontation with himself, most readers can relate to him. Because of this, many writers introduce a crisis of faith into their story. READ MORE Self-Publishing Advice: How to Upload Your Paperback…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author Aldous Huxley
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and…
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Utilize Both Internal and External Conflicts – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for May 27, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Utilize Both Internal and External Conflicts All stories center on conflict; arguably, the whole point of a story is to resolve some type of conflict. One way of thinking about conflict is to divide it into categories – internal and external. READ MORE Self-Publishing Advice: How to Design Your Paperback CoverMost potential readers…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author Charles W. Eliot
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no…
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Build Rising Action Scenes Around Conflict – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for May 20, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Build Rising Action Scenes Around ConflictAnytime you’re writing a scene in the story’s rising action, you’ll want to treat it as a short story in and of itself. That means focusing on conflict. READ MORE How to Format Your Paperback: Easy to Understand, Practical TipsYour paperback needs to look good. Readers depend upon a clean,…
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Great Writing Quotes by Poet Hilda Doolittle
…if you do not even understand what words say,/how can you expect to pass judgement/on what words conceal? Words were her plague and words were her redemption. I have tasted words, I have seen them. Love is writing. ______________ My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets…
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Basic Guidelines for Your Story’s Rising Action – Inventing Reality’s Newsletter for May 13, 2025
Plotting Your Book: Basic Guidelines for Your Story’s Rising ActionWhen developing the rising action section of your story, there a few simple guidelines to follow. Ensuring these guidelines aren’t violated will help keep the story moving forward and increase the dramatic tension. READ MORE Everything You Must Know to Self-Publish Your EbookYou’ve written a book and…
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Great Writing Quotes by Author T.S. Eliot
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them. The poet’s mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. Genuine poetry can communicate before it…
