Craft characters your readers won’t forget — Characters are the engine of every story. Quite often, indeed, they live longer than the story itself. How many of you happened to remember perfectly the characters of a novel read many years ago and not remember the plot at all? Plot is no more than footprints left in the…

Avoid improbable expedients to end your story — The "Deus Ex Machina" Lesson — You are reading the last chapters of the novel. You are in suspense because the protagonist is in a dead-end, with no possibility of escape. The enemy has an ax in his hand and is about to hit him. …

Believable characters are key to a memorable story — Harry Potter, Tom Sawyer, Princess Leia, Romeo and Juliet. If you are an aspiring writer or an avid reader, you know the abovementioned names aren’t of any ordinary people. They are the protagonists, the main characters of some of the greatest novels of all time. See how swiftly you recognized…

Is your product made with love? Consider this pricing strategy. — When creating a product, one of the hardest things is setting the price. What is the right price? What if I choose a price that is too high and no one buys my product? What if I choose a price that is too low and implicitly undervalue my product? …

Everything in your story must be consistent with the setting to engage readers in a coherent, linear, deep narrative. — Each story takes place in a specific place at a specific time. The characters move in that environment and are profoundly influenced by it: in the way they behave, speak, and think. This is why is the novel’s setting essential to craft a story that your readers will love. What is the setting of a story?

Use Flashback to introduce more depth and complexity to your characters and plot — To get to the president’s office to close the most important deal of his life, he was walking down a walkway in a beautiful garden. He heard his sleek, polished shoes crunch on the pebbles when suddenly the smell of wet grass brought him back to his childhood. When he wore…

Your words are precious — keep them safe — What are the best practices for securely managing bibisco projects? This is one of the questions that bibisco users ask me most, so in this post, we will analyze how bibisco stores projects and the safest way to manage them. Let’s start from the beginning: bibisco is a desktop application…

It makes them multi-dimensional and makes the story memorable — “When Martina first noticed Paolo walking down the pavement, she couldn’t believe her eyes. Never in her imagination, she thought about meeting Paolo in such an ordinary circumstance.” Let’s say it is the beginning of a story. What is Martina going to do next? …

You have to make your readers live an experience — The “Show Don’t Tell” lesson. — Everyone says you have to show and not to tell. Who knows how many times you’ve heard this advice, but what does it really mean? And, above all, why is it important? Let’s start with the definition. Show don’t tell is a narrative technique that suggests the writer not tell…