In my last post I talked about The Call to Adventure .  Today I want to talk about a very important part of any story: the hero’s descent in...

Hi! Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. Lately I've been making videos about writing, but I've missed posting here.  Today I...

How to Develop Your Writer’s Voice How would you go about developing your distinct voice?  And what is voice, exactly?[1] Obviously t...

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...