Secrets of Great Storytelling

When it’s time to spin your next tale of action and adventure, keep these secrets of great storytelling in mind.

Tell a unique story. This may sound obvious, but it’s trickier than it seems, as coming up with an original and creative story idea is often more work than producing the story itself, which is exactly why not everyone can do it.

Captivate your audience with questions. If your readers are constantly asking questions, odds are they’ll stick around and keep reading to find out the answers. Keep them guessing, and you’ll keep them hooked.

Ask yourself some questions too. Asking questions like “Who are my audience?” and “What do they like?” may be a bit on the basic side, but they go a long way in helping to craft a great story, and spark many other questions you should be asking yourself in the process.

Don’t leave your readers hanging. Cliffhangers are cheap tricks used by TV shows in hopes of being renewed for subsequent seasons. The fact of the matter is that audiences are often unsatisfied with unresolved questions.

Even natural born storytellers practice their craft. While some may be gifted when it comes to crafting a tale, even the best of the best continuously write, rewrite, edit, and hone their craft. There’s no substitute for hard work and determination!

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New Sci-Fi Novels to Take You to New Worlds

When you’re looking for a new read there’s no shortage of great books released in recent years. Here are two recent sci-fi novels that will take you to new worlds and thrill you through every step of the voyage.

Daughters of Forgotten Light by Sean Grigsby. A firefighter from Arkansas, Grigsby’s first novel Smoke Eaters is set in a world where the sudden arrival of dragons transforms firefighters into humanity’s first line of defense. In Daughters of Forgotten Light, Grigsby transports us to a deep space penal colony holding the worst of the worst. Within the prison walls a delicate peace exists between the Daughters of Forgotten Light and its two gang rivals, that is, until things are shaken up by the arrival of a fresh batch of prisoners, a fresh batch of supplies, and a baby. Back on Earth, however, the powers that be are looking for just about any excuse to blast the colony out of space once and for all.

The Dreaming Stars by Tim Pratt. You’re in good hands with Tim Pratt, who has won or been nominated for a rather extensive list of sci-fi and fantasy awards, including the Locus, Nebula, and Hugo just to name a few. In The Dreaming Stars, Pratt’s second installment in the Axiom series following the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated The Wrong Stars, we reunite with the misfit crew of the White Raven, who are called upon to deal with a swarm of nanoparticles transforming everything it encounters—including hapless colonists.

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Super Stories about Superman

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Superman! Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, Superman has captivated our imaginations ever since he graced the cover of Action Comics #1 back in June of 1938. Here are two interesting tales about the Man of Steel.

Knee problems. Superman couldn’t fly, but he could leap over tall buildings in a single bound! Or at least that’s what Superman co-creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel had in mind when they came up with the beloved superhero in 1938. It wasn’t until 1940 that he “developed” the ability to fly when animators for a new Superman cartoon show thought it would be too complicated to continuously draw him with his knees bent, thus deciding he should fly instead.

Superman helped bring down the KKK. Stetson Kennedy was an activist who had gathered information on the KKK by infiltrating the organization in the 1940s, but he found local authorities unable or unwilling to use the information to crack down on them. Kennedy turned to the creators of the hugely popular Adventures of Superman radio series, who incorporated the information into a 16-episode series entitled Clan of the Fiery Cross. The show helped expose the organisation and rob it of much of the secrecy it had enjoyed until that time.

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