This post is a continuation of yesterday's post BUT in what follows I don't talk about horror stories. Alas. Horror stories are ver...

I put the following together for my own use (I'm doing #NaNoWriMo this year), but I thought others might be interested as well so...

It doesn’t matter how well a story is structured, or how clever the writing is, if it isn’t clear to readers what the text is meant to...

Good Writing Patterns: Creating Emotion Hello! Welcome. Yesterday I talked about the importance of getting cause and effect right fo...

Suspension of disbelief is crucial to crafting an immersive story. If readers don’t believe in the story, they won’t keep reading. So ho...

Hi! Welcome back. A short post today. I’m not being lazy, I’m working on three much longer ones, but that’s for next week. Today, I thou...

The Hero’s Journey and Change Ages ago Chuck Wendig wrote an article about story structure [1], focusing on the Monomyth . It’s one o...

This is a question I've asked a time or three: How does a writer keep readers turning the page? 1. Tell a gripping tale. Th...

Here we are at last. This is the last post in a five part series on how to write a short story the Lester Dent way. (Here's a link ...