T.S. Eliot stated, “Good writers borrow, great writers steal.” Aaron Sorkin’s version of this commandment is, “Good writers borrow fro...

The Hero's Journey Over the years I've written quite a bit about story structure. So much in fact that I resolved not to do a...

I’ve been reading Deborah Chester’s excellent book on Story Structure: The Fantasy Fiction Formula . Have you ever read any of the boo...

When I began writing, I wrote from the first person perspective. Lately, though, I’ve been experimenting with free indirect discourse . ...

I put the following together for my own use (I'm doing #NaNoWriMo this year), but I thought others might be interested as well so...

Today I want to explore the importance of honesty in writing. First, though, let's look at dishonesty and its effects. That's ri...

It doesn’t matter how well a story is structured, or how clever the writing is, if it isn’t clear to readers what the text is meant to...