When you look at the different ways to open a story, you can see which works best. Here are a few types of story openers to consider: An action Weather Time A statement or fact A question Dialogue It's interesting to see how your choice of opening sentence can direct your entire ... READ the POST

Creating characters is one of the first things we do when planning our stories at the Storymakers Writing Club. This is because when you consider character and setting, it can spark an idea for your story and there are a number of ways to come up with characters, my favourite being use of images ... READ the POST