Pre-orders really help authors, so I really appreciate it! Want Story Magic as soon as it comes out? You can pre-order it now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore. Story Magic will be out on October 27, 2020. Each story brings her one step closer to finding Hob and leaving everything she's ever known behind. With each story she tells her ability to wield story magic grows and she soon begins to wonder if her brother's imprisonment was really her fault or something else entirely. When Hob is taken prisoner in Prima, the faraway capital city, Kaya is convinced it's her fault, either because someone discovered what she was doing or because the bad luck has found her.ĭesperate to save her brother, Kaya will do anything to make it to Prima, including story magic. If the listener is pleased and likes the story, it will allow the storyteller to work magic.Īlthough Kaya knows the risks, she attempts a little story magic to impress Hob. The trick is to sense a listener, one of the magical beings that inhabit the world, and tell it a story. Everyone knows this, but that doesn't stop twelve-year-old Kaya A'Dor from learning the basics from her older brother Hob. Girls are forbidden to practice story magic. Revision is how we truly make our stories Try to focus on big picture things, like plotting, pacing, andĬharacter development, but also focus on the little details, like grammar, wordĬhoice, and sentence structure. Sometimes, we’re just too close to our own writing to see what needs It’sĪlso a good idea to get feedback from other people as you work on these When you write something, you should plan on doing revisions. Writes a novel, that novel goes through many, many, many drafts before it is Want to because writing and revision can be hard, and you might be tempted to write Story, we absolutely can go back and make changes. I think writers have a big advantage her. She cannot go back and change what she has said. The last thing I want to talk about is revision. Writing skills will improve, just like Kaya’s storytelling skills improve in Stories, you might make some mistakes, and some of your stories might not come She keeps practicing, and over time, her stories improve. Mistakes, and the listeners do not like every story that she tells them. Kaya first starts telling stories, she is really nervous. The next thing I want to talk about is practice. Reading this way will help you grow as a writer. Read to enjoy books, but also read to learn.Īnalyze what you like and what you don’t like, what you think works and what If you want to be a writer, you should also be a reader. Stories, she listens to her brother’s stories. In Story Magic, before Kaya starts telling her own Readers will love Kaya’s growth fromĪn uncertain novice to a confident, caring storytelling and magician.” – Sarah McGuire, People who tell them can change the world. Heroine and an unshakeable truth: Stories have a magic all their own and the [“Gale crafts a heartwarming tale around a courageous So she goes on a big dangerous mission to rescue him. Magic anyway, and then he goes missing, and Kaya thinks it might be her fault, Kaya’s older brother teaches her a little Members of the Story Magicians Guild are allowed to practice story magic, and Listener a story, and the listener likes the story, the listener will grant People have figured out that if they tell a

Listeners have magicalĪbilities, and they like stories.

Where there are these invisible creatures called listeners. I have three writing tips to share with you today, butīefore I dive into those, I want to take a moment to tell you about my book, Story I’m Laurel Gale and today I want to talk Story MagicĪnd the writing process.

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