I’ve been thinking about horror stories, about what elements are common to the genre. I had intended to do this all in one post, but it has ...

The research vessel Investigator recently explored a 4 km deep abyss along the eastern edge of Australia and found some bizarre cr...

In Save the Cat , Blake Snyder writes: “The first 10 pages is also where we start to plant every character tic, exhibit every behavio...

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...

I’ve never written a screenplay so I’ve decided—even though I don’t plan on branching out into screenwriting—to rewrite one of my storie...

I've been following screenwriter Matt Bird's blog, Cockeyed Caravan , for a couple of weeks. Recently Bird wrote a post, The Ul...

Think of what a story would be without structure. Many of us don't have to imagine it, we have those stories buried under our beds! ...

A couple of weeks ago I joined John Ward's Google+ group for writers and since then have enjoyed his thought provoking articles and ...

Writer Beware Writer Lee Goldberg (Monk, The Dead Man series) spoke up a few days ago about a scam that Outskirts Press is running . ...

Ever wanted to write a script and, magically, have a list of shots generated from it? That's the promise of Adobe Story. And, better ye...