Transitions are tricky. In a scene you write in the moment, recording your character's thoughts, feelings, actions and—most imp...

I know I’ve touched on this in a couple of previous posts. To be honest, there’s an old story I’ve written, one I love, but I know the s...

I know I said I would write about how to create a great story opening by introducing a minor mystery. I’m still going to write about ...

This material is drawn from Chapter Four of Dwight Swain's book Techniques of the Selling Writer . Dwight Swain writes: &qu...

Today I'm going to talk about focal characters . I'm doing this because I want to examine how a focal character can be used to ...

One of my favorite books on writing is Dwight V. Swain's Techniques of the Selling Writer because there he discusses, in depth, how ...

Today I'm going to talk about how to craft a story so that not only will the average reader find the ending satisfying but you&#...