Doing this cycle not only gives me more ideas, loglines, and openers then I could possibly ever write, it also keeps me very sharp in my ability to generate stories. I never feel stuck, crushed, or blocked.

POV problems are the easiest for the unpracticed writer to make and they plague even high-skill writers. They are vital to fix! Sloppy POV erodes a writer’s credibility and a reader’s trust.

What if you don’t want fisticuffs, fire, mayhem, spaceships zipping at mach speed through narrow, crescent shaped gorges or sorcerer’s conjuring the universe’s dark arts? How do you manufacture conflict then?

Dialogue.

Setting is the combination of scene descriptions and blocking narrated through a specific voice to produce the effect of atmosphere.

Characterization are the choices your characters make under pressure that reveal their true natures.