Story Mentor Blogs

Put Yourself in the Character’s Shoes By Matt Braida

I find that when I work with my students on their stories, plot is often not what they struggle with. There’ll be moments where we have to work out where a story goes together, but more often than not students come to their sessions brimming with ideas like where their…

In Defense of Poetry By Guy Webster

How does one write ‘like a poet’? Maybe we should start by asking which poet we want to write like. After all, writing like Dr. Seuss will be different to writing like William Shakespeare. Penning a spoken word, different to a bouncing limerick. But there are some commonalities to poetic…