April Bosshard 1/31/25 April Bosshard 1/31/25

The Stories You Choose to Live, Read, and Write 📚

We are all living stories. Stories are all around us and working through us. We make stories. Our lives are stories. Paying attention to the stories we’re choosing to live can offer insights into the choices we’re making now or could make later.

April Bosshard 4/25/24 April Bosshard 4/25/24

What Stories Are & Why We Need to Write Them ✍️

I’ve been working on a book about how to write longer form stories, such as novels, screenplays, and memoirs. In it, I’ve included what I think writers need to know to tell powerful, deep, resonant stories. I’ve organized the material around the five aspects of writing that story-makers need to master: Structure, Character, Theme, Plot, and Scenes.

6/30/23 6/30/23

Your Character's Degree of Change: Evolution or Transformation?

Each story, and each character, is unique, and so the degree of change will be particular to your character and story situation. Once you determine the degree of change your character undergoes, evolution or transformation, you will be clearer about your overall deep story design.

6/28/20 6/28/20

Choice, Change, and Conflict

In the midst of all the changes in the world, we are invited to make some new choices—collectively and individually.

2/27/20 2/27/20

Story and the Pursuit of Transcendence

hy do we write? Why do we read? I ask these two questions often—in my courses, retreats, and even the book I’m working on right now.With reading, answers come down to understanding ourselves and the world, as well as knowing more and feeling more, including feeling less alone.

character • character development • conflict • courage • creativity • drafting • goals • gratitude • inspiration • motivation • outlining • productivity • readers • resistance • revision • scenes • story • structure • success • talent • time • travel • uncertainty • writing process