The end goal of character creation, the Holy Grail, is for your reader to feel empathy for your character.  Jim Butcher writes: “...if you c...

This post continues my mini-series about how to introduce a character. I’ve already written about Exaggeration, Unusual Position and introdu...

In the past I’ve shared articles I thought were particularly insightful about what makes a story a good story. This time I'm sharin...

Transitions are tricky. In a scene you write in the moment, recording your character's thoughts, feelings, actions and—most imp...

So far our story has set a fairly quick pace. We’ve introduced the setting and the protagonist. We’ve introduced the protagonist’s a...

I finally published the first episode of my book on writing: Parts of Story: Plot ! To celebrate, and to say a big, huge, massive t...

Jim Butcher describes a scene as the place "where all the plot in your book happens. Any time your character is actively pursuing ...

Today I'm doing something different. Jamie Sedgwick is one of the first people to leave a comment on this blog and one of my first ...