Using the Tools of Actors to Be a Better Writer

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

Sometimes us writers become a little stylistic. We get addictions. We might fall in love with the ellipses or certain words. Or, we might...

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...