More Stories, Creative Writing Podcast

More Stories: The Creative Writing Podcast Season 3: Episode 5 - Elements of Narrative Creative Writing.   In order to improve our creative writing efforts, it helps us to understand the five basic elements of storytelling: Character, Plot, Setting, Dialogue, and Significant Detail.   If you’ve been writing for a while, starting to accumulate pages, you may find that you re-read your work, and it seems to be, well…not good. Things don't seem to be coming together. What you are producing doesn't feel like a story, it lacks cohesion, it maybe jest feels flat or lifeless or uninteresting. Somehow the writing doesn't feel complete.   Don't worry. If you find yourself in this place, you should know that most writers have been there. It is part of the growth and creative maturity process.   I believe that when you have gotten to a place where you've been piling up some pages of writing, but you just aren't happy with the overall quality of the writing, that is a good time to begin to apply some of the analytical kn