Fiction is the Hardest Thing
Fiction is a strange thing. To communicate to as many people as possible, writers spend as much time as they can alone. To convey their...
Examples of Writing Styles: Howard and Hemingway
As a quick example, to show certain differences between writing styles, let’s take a look at an excerpt from Robert E. Howard’s tale of...
7 Aspects of a Shadow Protagonist
How well do you know your protagonist? If your central characters are like many, you may have developed ideas about their desires,...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
A Whole Dimension of Fiction
I think it’s peculiar that we read books usually long before we get to know anything about their authors. Sometimes we never find out...