Experience is Storytelling's Companion

Sure we have innate storytelling skills, but if we’re not using those skills regularly, they get rusty. And rusty storytelling skills make for a clunker of a story. So, how can we pull those dormant storytelling skills to the surfaces of our overstimulated brains and make good use of them?

Links to the content mentioned in this week’s video:

Writer's Self-Care — Pursuit Of Hobbies (Joan Hall)
https://storyempire.com/2024/04/17/writers-self-care-pursuit-of-hobbies/

How To Stop Judging Your Own Writing So Harshly (Meg Dowell)
https://ryanlanz.com/2024/04/15/how-to-stop-judging-your-own-writing-so-harshly/

The Torment and Bliss of the Crappy First Draft (Lynette Burrows)
https://writersinthestormblog.com/2024/04/the-torment-and-bliss-of-the-crappy-first-draft/

5 Mistakes That Got My Books Rejected And How I Fixed Them (Shirley Jump)
https://www.youtube.com/v/6Ido69_qyjY?version=3

Make Your Characters Leap Off the Page (Hugh Cook)
https://elizabethspanncraig.com/uncategorized/make-your-characters-leap-off-the-page/

One Word Holds Power (Sue Colletta)
https://killzoneblog.com/2024/04/one-word-holds-power.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-word-holds-power

Three Easy Steps to Generate a Goal Using Fear as Motivation (Marissa Graff)
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2024/04/three-easy-steps-to-generate-a-goal-using-fear-as-motivation/

Fiction Isn’t Fact, Right? (Marti Johnson)
https://writersrumpus.com/2024/04/16/fiction-isnt-fact-right/

Link to the full text article:
https://www.fallonedits.com/post/experience-is-storytelling-s-companion

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