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Published on 2022-06-08
Too often in modern storytelling, the opening narrative is a confusing mess of action and backstory, of worldbuilding and exposition. Before you take the reader on a rollercoaster of head-spinning proportions, orient them to the scene. What is the place and time you’ve asked the reader to live in? Who is your protagonist? And why are they there? It’s simple. Take a breath and a moment to SET. YOUR. STAGE.
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Wulf Moon learned oral storytelling as a child when he lived with his Chippewa grandmother. He begged stories from her every night and usually got his wish—fireside tales that fired his imagination. If Moon had a time machine, those are the days he would go back to. Since he doesn’t have a time machine, he writes. Moon wrote his first science fiction story at fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and became his first professional sale in Science World. He has won over forty writing awards, and thirty in public speaking. His stories have appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. 35, Deep Magic, Future Science Fiction Digest, Best of Third Flatiron, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2. Moon is a professional voice-over actor and is podcast director at Future Science Fiction Digest. Wulf Moon's award-winning SUPER SECRETS Writing Resource and Workshops have been attributed by many aspiring writers as the secret to their success in obtaining first professional sales. Two of Moon's books on writing will be published by Mark Leslie of Stark Publishing Solutions in the winter of 2022. Want in on the Secrets? JOIN THE WULF PACK at www.driftweave.com!
Wulf Moon's SUPER SECRETS: Set. Your. Stage. - by Wulf Moon
Author Details
Wulf Moon learned oral storytelling as a child when he lived with his Chippewa grandmother. He begged stories from her every night and usually got his wish—fireside tales that fired his imagination. If Moon had a time machine, those are the days he would go back to. Since he doesn’t have a time machine, he writes. Moon wrote his first science fiction story at fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and became his first professional sale in Science World. He has won over forty writing awards, and thirty in public speaking. His stories have appeared in Writers of the Future Vol. 35, Deep Magic, Future Science Fiction Digest, Best of Third Flatiron, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2. Moon is a professional voice-over actor and is podcast director at Future Science Fiction Digest. Wulf Moon's award-winning SUPER SECRETS Writing Resource and Workshops have been attributed by many aspiring writers as the secret to their success in obtaining first professional sales. Two of Moon's books on writing will be published by Mark Leslie of Stark Publishing Solutions in the winter of 2022. Want in on the Secrets? JOIN THE WULF PACK at www.driftweave.com!
