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

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 ...

In the previous chapter we discussed the structure of a sequel. Now lets talk about what a sequel does and how it does it. Jim Butche...

As Dwight V. Swain says in Techniques of the Selling Writer , sequels take the protagonist from the disaster of one scene to the goal o...

Time and again folks have recommended Dwight V. Swain's books on writing to me but I put off reading his work. I told myself I didn&#...

Serack from over at Jim Butcher's Forums emailed me with a couple of great links I'd omitted from my Jim Butcher On Writing comp...

Yesterday I promised to write an article about the last tool Mary Robinette Kowal introduced in her (terrific!) workshop at SiWC last w...