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Category: Story Craft

5 Great Books From My 2024 Reading ListColorful stack of books surrounded by hearts with the text: 5 Great Books From My 2024 Reading List
What I Have Learned About Storytelling From CartoonsImage of Sharon as a cartoon superhero holding a giant pen and surrounded by attacking cartoon monsters and villains to illustrate what I have Learned About Storytelling from Cartoons.
Fracturing the NarrativeImage of a shadowy landscape with black fracture lines running through it with the book coaching by Sharon logo in the lower eft-hand corner and text that read "Fracturing the Narrative"
7 Great Books From My 2023 Reading ListSharon reading a book written by one of her clients (Prickly Mrs. Pearl by Colleen Griffin) with desert landsacping in the background. Text that reads: 7 Great Books from My 2023 Reading List
SUSTAINING A STORYImage of open laptop, closed book with logo for Book Coaching by Sharon, a pair of glasses and a pencil with text that reads, "Sustaining a Story"
5 Easy Writing Hooks to Keep Readers from Closing the BookWriting Hooks blog post header image: Young woman standing on stacks of books to reach for a book hanging from a hook. Fishhooks form hearts in both upper corners.
Love of Language, Part 2: The Incredible Language of IllustrationFramed bookcover illustrations for Sharon's novels showing the Language of Illustration. Covers include: Mirabella and the Faded Phantom, The Nelig Stones, Return to Anoria, The Healer's Legacy Trilogy (The Healer's Legacy, The Matriarch's Devise, The Exile’s Gift), Collars & Curses, Supernal Dawn, and Lostuns Found.
Love of Language – Part 1: Words, Glorious Words!Image of happy child in front of curved shelves of books reading and watching magical books fly, expressing a love of language.
CHARACTERS: SIMPLE AND COMPLEXImage of man holding mirrored ball in front of face surrounded by smaller images of same man in different poses and attitudes to reflect multi-faceted nature of people and characters: simple and complex.
CONFLICT IS STORY FUELVarious characters in conflict: Argument, Anger, Rejection to illsutrate how conflict is story fuel