It’s a pleasure
to be participating in the Blog Tour for CREATING STORIES by Hank Quense
through MC Book Tours.
Do you have a
story in you? Do you know how to write it or how to tell it? Well, CREATING
STORIES has the answers. In addition, Hank is offering a tour-wide
giveaway featuring five (5) eBooks of CREATING
STORIES and three (3) print copies of the author’s MOXIE'S
PROBLEM (U.S. entries only). See how you can enter to win below.
If you don’t want to wait to win a copy of CREATING STORIES, Hank is offering a
special ‘half price’ sale that will only be available during his tour
(March 20 through April 14).
Hank, the author
of more than twenty books, tells you how to write your story. He believes that
stories come from the melding of three elements: getting ideas, story design,
and story-telling. Ideas have to come from the author. CREATING STORIES covers
the last two.
Creating Stories
by Hank Quense
- Published by Strange World
Publishing
- AVAILABLE April 1, 2017
- $8.99, 9947 KB, 105 Pages
- Genre: Fiction Writing
- ASIN: B01MZ6E3EM
The book concentrates on developing characters including such rarely discussed
requirements such as a dominant reader emotion and the character's biography.
Plots are also covered in depth and a number of graphics are included to
illustrate complex points. Another topic discusses subplots and how to utilize
them and how to nest them within the main plot.
A separate chapter discusses the relationship between the plot and the
emotional arcs.
Other topics covered are character arcs, scene
design, point-of-view, writing voice.
Be sure to add CREATING
STORIES to your shelf on Goodreads.
About the Author:
Hank Quense
writes humorous and satiric sci-fi and fantasy stories.
He also writes
and lectures about fiction writing and self-publishing. He has published 19
books and 50 short stories along with dozens of articles. He often lectures on
fiction writing and publishing and has a series of guides covering the basics
on each subject. He is currently working on a third Moxie novel that takes
place in the Camelot era.
He and his wife,
Pat, usually vacation in another galaxy or parallel universe. They also time
travel occasionally when Hank is searching for new story ideas.
You can check out
the schedule and follow Hank’s tour by clicking HERE.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
This tour-wide
giveaway is for five (5) eBooks of CREATING
STORIES and three (3) print copies of the author’s MOXIE'S
PROBLEM (U.S. entries only). The prizes are courtesy of the
publisher. The giveaway will end at 12 a.m. (EST) on Tuesday, April 18.
And here's a short guest post by Hank.
What is the most difficult aspect of writing a book
that will help others to write?
For me, the most
difficult part of designing a story is getting the ending. I'm a big believer in planning a story, so if
you're a panster feel free to ignore everything that follows.
My stories all
start with a character. I don't know
why, but that's the way it happens. My
next step is to come up with a plot problem for the character to work on. Coming up with a plot problem isn't too
difficult, but the next step is. I don't
do any work on the story until I can come up with an ending. I don't develop the characters, the setting,
or the scenes until and unless I come up with an ending. And it has to be an ending that can I believe
in, one that I can write convincingly about.
If I don't believe in the ending, I'll never get the reader to believe
it.
The reason I
don't work on the characters and other elements of the story is this: If I
can't get an ending, there won't be a story.
I need to know the ending because everything that goes into the story
has to point the reader toward that ending.
I can't do that if I don't know the ending.
The reason for
putting everything on hold until I get the ending is because if I spend time
developing characters and so forth, all that effort is wasted unless I can come
up with a story ending.
Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check out Hank’s book.
And for those of you following "Still Me...After All These Years" book tour, here's the schedule:
7 comments:
A good ending is important to a story. It's always a bit disappointing to be all wrapped up in a story to have it fall flat at the end. Karen, thanks for being a part of Hank's tour.
Mason
MC Book Tours
That's kind of how I work. I will plan the characters a bit, but the ending always comes first. And I am a big planner.
Congratulations, Hank.
Hi Alex, I'm a planner also and a big fan of mind-maps. I actually mind-map my novels before I start on the first draft. I think of the mind-map as a graphical synopsis. If I can mind-map it, I'm ready to start writing it.
I'm the complete opposite - a totally organic writer - I get an idea and just allow it to take me wherever. I love how folks approach things totally differently - welcome, Hank. Good luck with your book!
A good ending is exactly why I'm struggling with my latest WIP. I can come up with an ending if I concentrate, but, for whatever reason, I can't concentrate. I need a good kick, Hank. Congratulations on your book. Happy for you.
Kinda important to have an ending. Otherwise it just becomes practice.
Joylene
I often get a great story idea (at least I think so) but can't come up with a credible ending, so the story never gets written. I have story ideas from years ago, that I could never come up with an ending. On the other hand, these story ideas and/or the characters sometimes make it into a different novel as a subplot or an minor character.
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