I’ve been reading Deborah Chester’s excellent book on Story Structure: The Fantasy Fiction Formula . Have you ever read any of the boo...

It doesn’t matter how well a story is structured, or how clever the writing is, if it isn’t clear to readers what the text is meant to...

“ Fan fiction, for many people, is ... a gateway drug to all other fiction writing .” —Emma Lord Before Amazon came out wit...

This article continues yesterday’s post on Deborah Chester’s notions of classic design . All quotations, below, are from her article Fig...

I know I said this blog post would either be about Part 7 of my series on Dan Harmon’s unique take on the structure of stories or I wou...

When I first started writing, I had no idea how important a well-developed setting was for enabling a reader to imagistically enter...

Deborah Chester, in her latest blog post, " Writing with Flair " argues that we should not attempt to make our characters true...

Deborah Chester was one of Jim Butcher's writing teachers ( she's still a professor over at the University of Oklahoma ), one h...