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...

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...

Without knowing the backstory, we wouldn’t know the emotional goals of the character, the why for their tangible goals. Instead we’d be reading and...