Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals

Showing details in your writing isn’t just some annoying comment that agents, editors, and writing coaches and teachers paste into every student’s work. You...

When I talk about novel structure, I talk a lot about Dwight Swain who wrote  Techniques of the Selling Writer. Swain has some really...

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,...