Writing Exceptional Characters Part One Backstory

A quick ramble about setting. Writers, you need it. You might not want it. You might not be good at it, but setting is...

Last week, I took a little break because of the holiday in the U.S., but this week, we’re talking about cause and effect in...

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