In a previous post, How to Write a Genre Story: Characters: An Introduction to Character Tags , I talked about why tags are important for ch...

 Supporting Characters versus Main Characters We want some characters to be one-dimensional, characters such as the impatient pizza delivery...

As I mentioned in my last post , I’ve recently read Deborah Chester’s excellent book, “ The Fantasy Fiction Formula .” Inevitably, I ...

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

Three dimensional characters are interesting. Readers care about them. So the question is: What makes a character three dimensional? R...

The Character Opening The character story opening is my favorite kind of opening, though it’s arguably the trickiest to pull ...

I’m reading “Story,” by Robert McKee and kicking myself for not doing this long ago. I’ve reached the part where McKee talks about th...

The other day I watched a video of Lee Child talking about writing. It was a question and answer period and someone asked how he go...

I've already discussed conflict and the importance of having goals, but a goal is useless without stakes. Stakes are the possi...