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

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In elementary school I dreaded writing essays. I had no idea how to proceed. That all changed in high school. I had an amazing teache...

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...

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Book doctors are wonderful. A book doctor is someone who isn’t your husband/wife/parent/friend, someone who can be objective toward your...

A good editing program will tell you how many words your story has, how many of those words are unique, how many sentences there are,...

NanoWriMo is over! If you participated and wrote more than you would have otherwise, you’re a winner. If you ended up writing 50,000+ wo...