Artwork

Content provided by The Writership Podcast and Leslie Watts. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by The Writership Podcast and Leslie Watts or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

Episode 115: Motivation-Reaction Units

1:14:52
 
Share
 

Manage episode 206226482 series 2311886
Content provided by The Writership Podcast and Leslie Watts. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by The Writership Podcast and Leslie Watts or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

In this episode, fiction editors Leslie Watts and Kim Kessler critique the first chapter of Passage, a fantasy/women’s society novel by S. Thies. This week’s author submitted her scene in first- and third-person point of view, providing an opportunity for us to ask, how can you improve your scenes no matter which POV you choose? The answer is MRUs, that is Motivation-Reaction Units. If you practice writing these stimulus-and-response sequences within your scenes, your character’s reactions will make sense and be unique to them. And more importantly, your reader will get to experience the events of the story (as opposed to merely reading about them).

  continue reading

137 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 206226482 series 2311886
Content provided by The Writership Podcast and Leslie Watts. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by The Writership Podcast and Leslie Watts or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

In this episode, fiction editors Leslie Watts and Kim Kessler critique the first chapter of Passage, a fantasy/women’s society novel by S. Thies. This week’s author submitted her scene in first- and third-person point of view, providing an opportunity for us to ask, how can you improve your scenes no matter which POV you choose? The answer is MRUs, that is Motivation-Reaction Units. If you practice writing these stimulus-and-response sequences within your scenes, your character’s reactions will make sense and be unique to them. And more importantly, your reader will get to experience the events of the story (as opposed to merely reading about them).

  continue reading

137 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide