Nancy Yates

How to dare to improvise in writing?

Paradoxically, the art of improvising cannot be improvised! There is a prerequisite: to be able to stimulate your imagination enough to be able to improvise. And to do that, it requires training as the preliminary steps. The writing, in improvisation, is instantaneous, which does not mean that it is sloppy, illogical or unpredictable. Improvising means putting more effort…

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5 Ingredients for a Good Story

Do you find no structure in your story? Can’t you even make out what the beginning, middle and end are? Best-selling American author Steven James shows how you can ignore the structures and focus instead on your characters. That way, the pieces will eventually fall into place anyway. Imagine for a second you were transposed…

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