"... the job of fiction is to find the truth inside the story’s web of lies ...", Stephen King What is writing? Stephen King has a...

What is Free Indirect Discourse and why should you care? Do you have a favorite author, one who is able to grab you on the first page, immer...

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...