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 ...

Today I’m going to finish up the critical reading portion of these posts. We’ll finish examining the anatomy of a scene by taking a loo...

Today I continue my two part series on reading critically. I had hoped to wrap things up today, but that’s not going to happen! Last ...

This title should read “How I Critique A Story” because that’s what I’ll be writing about, but it just didn’t have the same ring to ...

The web is replete with admonitions for writers to read. They range from Stephen King's terse  "If you don't have time...