This is the last post in my Dan Harmon series. To read the series from the beginning head on over to the first post: Dan Harmon on Story...

Today I continue my series on Dan Harmon’s Story Structure. The first article in the series is here . Unless otherwise noted, all quotatio...

9. The Reward As I mentioned in Part 2 of Writing And The Monomyth , the basic structure of the monomyth is that of a quest. The hero...

Writing And The Monomyth Continued Yesterday I began writing about what Joseph Campbell called the monomyth (see Writing And The Monom...

I'm going to continue my Starburst Method series today, but first I'd like to say a few words about Hugh Howey's book Wool a...

Some of the best characters aren't likable. For instance Sherlock Holmes, especially as brilliantly depicted by Benedict Cumberbatch...

I started this post intending to write about Kristen Lamb's article Structure Part 7–Genre Matters . Kristen's posts are always mar...

I've just come back from a weekend writing conference, Write on Vancouver, sponsored by the Romance Writers of America . This year t...