This would have been a great thing to do for Halloween! Oh well, better late than never. Today I want to talk about something that has f...

Over the years I've written a few articles about the various ways a story can be structured (see: Short Story Structures: Several Wa...

I like writing descriptions for my stories about as much as I like eating day old spinach. So! In the best tradition of procrastinators...

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post, How to Write a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) story . It's one of my favorite posts bec...

Three dimensional characters are interesting. Readers care about them. So the question is: What makes a character three dimensional? R...

Today I want to share some of what I'm calling the Wisdom of the Web. There are many wonderful writing blogs out there with wonderfu...

James Patterson's success is astonishing. Patterson has written, or co-written, 147 novels. Of these, 114 were New York Times Bes...

Today I’m not going to talk about the structure of stories! We’re taking a break from that for a while. Today, rather than look at t...

Today I want to do something different. I’ve just finished a five part series on the structure of genre stories and want to turn to ...

This is the final post in my series on the Three Act Structure for genre stories. Yes! (I always get a bit excited when I write the l...