L. E. Sterling

Tag: plot

  • To Plot or To Pants, That is the Question

    When I first started doing press for True Born, one of the questions I was most surprised by (which became ubiquitous, by the way) was this: Are you a Plotter, or a Pantser?  If you’re a little lost, allow me to translate. The interviewers were asking if, during my writing process, I liked to ‘fly…

  • Description – Part I: Friend or Frenemy?

    Description – Part I: Friend or Frenemy?

    Description can be your best friend. Equally, it can be like that frenemy who talks about you behind your back and steals your boyfriend. I’ve been on both ends of this particular lesson. As a Master’s student in Creative Writing one of my teachers went so far as to indicate that I “overdid” description in…

  • Character Flaws

    Character Flaws

    The most compelling part of any story – even more so than a good plot – is character. While plot can be imagined as the track by which a story moves from a to z, character is the engine of a story that takes the reader over every dip and bend and turn of the…