Episode 20 - Building a story from the ground up

The Creative Writer's Toolbelt

Oct 18 2014 | 00:11:51

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Show Notes

It's time to start planning that story, but with so many aspects to creative writing and the creative process being such a subjective and mysterious thing, how do you plan? In this episode we explore the dimensions to a story and how to balance the discipline of structure with the flexibility to harness imagination

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