I don't want terrible, gut-wrenching, things to happen to my characters. I've spent many hours crafting them and I know them ins...

Janice Hardy's blog, The Other Side of the Story , is wonderful and I recommend it to anyone who asks: Which writing blogs should I ...

Yesterday I started writing about Janice Hardy's excellent article, "What Downtown Abby Can Teach us About Tension," and her...

I wrote about the structure of short stories yesterday so I normally wouldn't do another post on story structure but today Janice Hard...

Book doctors are wonderful! I can tell you from personal experience that writers often--in fact, nearly always--lack the ability to see ...

Why care about plot elements? Because if all the elements of plot are in place--if they are clear and concrete--then you'll have a st...