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Summary: Setting is an essential part of good writing because a well developed setting helps a writer show rather than tell. Each object in ...

Most of the time I focus on story structure rather than character structure. Now, you might wonder: Is “character structure” really a ...

Today I continue my series on the Three Act Structure for genre stories.  First post: A Story Structure in Three Acts Second po...

For the past two posts I’ve been stepping through what I’m calling The Three Act Structure. (Which is slightly misleading since there...

In my Last post , I examined Act One of the three act structure. Today, let’s look at Act Two. But, before we get to that, please kee...

I’ve just finished a string of posts on the topic of critical reading ( Writing A Critique: Reading Critically ). While I was writing...

The Critique To recap: There are two parts or stages to writing a critique. The first part—what I’ve been talking about the past ...