Let’s talk about strong story openings.  I’ve been writing a series of blog posts on Lester Dent’s Short Story Structure  and realized that ...

This post is part of a series on Lester Dent’s method for writing a short story . You might think: Why should I care? Well, all the short st...

In previous posts  I’ve written about Lester Dent’s short story formula . Lester Dent was perhaps the best of the pulp-fiction writers of th...

Here we are at last. This is the last post in a five part series on how to write a short story the Lester Dent way. (Here's a link ...

This is the third in a series of articles I'm writing on Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula . Even though Dent wrote his form...

This is the third post in this series. In the first post I went over the sort of things Dent said should be clarified before pen touche...

This post continues my series on Lester Dent's Master Fiction Formula . The First 1,500 Words 1a. Introduce your characters...

Lester Dent's Formula For Writing A 6,000 Word Short Story Lester Dent writes: "This is a formula, a master plot, fo...