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Guest post by my friend Hank Quense: Creating Stories
Recently I’ve been reading “Creating Stories” by my friend Hank Quense. It covers slightly different, more advanced ground than -“From Story -idea to Reader. I think they’re both excellent books. Take it away, Hank! My recently published Creating Stories has everything I’ve leaned about writing stories over the last twenty years. Below is an extract on plotting. Learn more at Amazon. From Chapter 6: Constructing a plot A plot…
I did it!
I did it! I typed the magic words THE END I still have to process the feedback from my beta readers for the last 10 (short) chapters, but I got to the end. Just in time too. La Palma is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the starlight declaration and I’m going to be very busy indeed from now until Friday.
Berlin
I’m having a good time in Berlin, seeing the sights and walking miles. In fact I’m too busy to write much.
A podcast about me!
For some time I’ve been a fan of Chris Guillebeau, who blogs about unconventional careers. He’s now doing a daily podcast called Side Hustle School. He believes it’¡s a really good idea to have a side line, both for the obvious extra income, but also fun, new skills, and to be less dependant on your employer. The episode with me is at https://sidehustleschool.com/episode/38 It’s 8 min 21 sec.