Write for a Reason
by Janet
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What Does Your Protagonist Need?
What Does Your Protagonist Need?
About this podcast
For Christians new to writing novels for kids and teens. Creative writing tips, encouragement and inspiration from Janet Wilson, writer, speaker, and publisher of Christian fiction for young people. Get ready to take your writing to the next level! You can do it - all you need is a bit of help. Don't miss out!
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- What Does Your Protagonist Need? · 5 minSend us Fan Mail What does your protagonist need? At the beginning of your story, your protagonist may or may not want or need anything particular, but if something doesn't…
- Times to Write · 5 minSend us Fan Mail What time works best for you, to write? Maybe there's more than one! In this episode we look at how you can get into the habit of writing daily, but also how to…
- 25 Quick Writing Tips for Christians Writing Stories for Kids and Teens · 8 minSend us Fan Mail Over the summer I sent out 5 quick writing tips every Monday to my email list. Nothing detailed – a bit like proverbs, perhaps! I have put all 25 into a neat…
- 5 Basic Essentials for Writing Stories for Kids and Teens · 6 minSend us Fan Mail There are many elements we need to get right with our stories, but there are some basic essentials that will make or break our novels. I hope this podcast will…
- Ten Top Tips for Writing Tight Sentences · 10 minSend us Fan Mail Tight Sentences As in every area of art, writing tight sentences is not an exact science, but I hope some pointers in the right direction might help you with…
- Surprises in Your Story · 7 minSend us Fan Mail Some surprises in stories can be good - some can be bad. Listen in and get some tips for your own novel, to make sure you are thrilling your readers with some…
- A Few Thoughts on Characters · 6 minSend us Fan Mail Welcome to the Write for a Reason podcast. My name is Janet Wilson; I'm a publisher of Christian fiction for young people with Dernier Publishing. If you are a…
- Tips on Writing Great Dialogue · 7 minSend us Fan Mail Some writers are great at dialogue - others find it more challenging. Here are some tips to help you write dialogue that will move your story forward, help your…
- Compelling Settings · 8 minSend us Fan Mail The setting of our story is important! Janet Wilson of Dernier Publishing (Christian fiction for kids and teens) discusses the importance of choosing a…
- Descriptions - 7 Quick Tips · 8 minSend us Fan Mail Getting descriptions right can be tricky. Janet Wilson of Dernier Publishing gives 7 tips to help you write great descriptions for your stories. Support the show…
- Do You Need an Antagonist? · 6 minSend us Fan Mail Do you need an antagonist in your story? Not necessarily! Listen to this podcast episode to find some other ways of introducing conflict into your stories…
- Weaving a Message into Your Story · 4 minSend us Fan Mail In one of our recent Writers for a Reason Unite groups, one of the things we talked about was weaving a message into our stories. How do we do this gently, with…
- Divide Your Character into Four · 4 minSend us Fan Mail We usually start of with a good idea of what our characters look like. But what about other parts of their personality? Here's a writing exercise for you to do…
- The Changed Character · 4 minSend us Fan Mail With your theme and message in mind, how will your protagonist, and any other characters, change during the course of your story? How will they be different at…
- Improving the Pace of Your Story · 7 minSend us Fan Mail Keeping up the pace in our stories is essential, if we want to hold our readers' attention. This is even more true today than it was a few years ago! So how can…
- Your Writing Mission Statement · 5 minSend us Fan Mail This may sound like a daft question, but knowing who you want to write for, and why, is an important foundation for our writing. We can have what we think is a…
- Different Voices for Different Characters · 7 minSend us Fan Mail Today I have a little tip for you, on writing dialogue. Someone was asking me recently about what mistakes I see most often in dialogue, and one of them is that…
- Leaving a Legacy with Your Writing · 8 minSend us Fan Mail We are leaving a legacy with our writing, whether we are thinking about it or not. So why not be intentional? Listen to this episode and be inspired to change…
- Conflicts in Stories · 15 minSend us Fan Mail We may avoid conflicts in real life, but in our stories we should embrace them as our best friends, because without conflicts we do not have a story! In this…
- Some Guidelines for Writing Christian Fantasy for Kids · 7 minSend us Fan Mail Hi, Janet Wilson here. The issue with writing fantasy, and how we deal with it as Christians, came up in one of our Writers for a Reason Unite meetings recently…
