Cause and Effect in Novel Writing

Dwight Swain has a book, The Techniques of a Selling Writer, and there’s a chapter (well many) that talk about story structure, but one...

I come from a theater background—a sort of. Basically, I spent a lot of my time singing and dancing and acting (badly) when I...

It’s the last in our three-week series on scene and structure the Dwight Swain way. Let’s go. Like we said in the first week,...