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 ...

Happy New Year! I’m going to celebrate the upcoming new year by looking back at my most popular posts of 2014. Coming in at number ...

Yesterday we saw that character traits don’t come singly but in pairs. If a character is, say, one angry SOB then, all things being e...

This post is part of a longer discussion on tags and traits and how we can use them to craft unique and interesting characters. Here ...

Yesterday I began a discussion of Tags and Traits and talked about how they can help bring a character to life. Today I’d like to ex...

I know I said I would write about how to create a great story opening by introducing a minor mystery. I’m still going to write about ...

As you’ve likely heard again and again, to be commercially competitive in today’s market your story’s opening has to shine. Altho...

Mythcreants is fast becoming one of my favorite blogs. Chris Winkle’s articles have the enviable quality of being both witty and inf...

On Monday I wrote about using the tarot as a kind of plot wheel , something to help spark ideas, to help create a structure for a story...