What makes a character memorable? Deborah Chester writes in her article, Bonding with Your Characters : "We want readers to either love...

What makes a story seem real? What gives it verisimilitude? I'm trying out a new idea or perhaps just putting a twist on an old one. I&#...

This is the final post in my series on the Three Act Structure for genre stories. Yes! (I always get a bit excited when I write the l...

What do you have over your writing desk? Mine is littered with pieces of paper on which I've scribbled bits of (what I think is) sa...

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 ...

Have you ever had the experience of suddenly seeing something everywhere after you begin studying it? Of having something 'on your mi...

Who is the most important character in your story? Your protagonist, right? Wrong! It's the antagonist. Or at least that's what J...