Writing Corner: Framing Devices

Normally when we read a story, the narrator is simply telling us the story, whether it is a narrator outside the story (3rd person) or a character in the story (1st person). This is a one-level story. However, sometimes, just like a frame around a picture, one story can be wrapped around another. This is…

Writing Corner: Fantasy Names

Let’s say you are writing a story in a made-up world. The good news is that you can create the world however you’d like. Here is more discussion about that. However, now you have a lot of names to create, both for characters and places. How do you do that? We’re going to look at…