Mythcreants is fast becoming one of my favorite blogs. Chris Winkle’s articles have the enviable quality of being both witty and inf...

On Monday I wrote about using the tarot as a kind of plot wheel , something to help spark ideas, to help create a structure for a story...

Ever since I first saw the tarot—it was my friend’s mother’s Rider-Waite deck—I’ve been interested in the history of the tarot. Recen...

A well-written opening reflects the kind of story you’ve written. If it’s a horror then the opening should communicate this; similarl...

The Character Opening The character story opening is my favorite kind of opening, though it’s arguably the trickiest to pull ...

I’m going to take a break from my series on story openings (I’ll come back to that on Wednesday) to look at what Ferdinando Buscema c...

On the 31st I began a series on Story Openings and claimed—boldly—that there were six. Well, more or less six; I suppose it depends on ...