Writing Isn't About Being Clever; It's About Story

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,...

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...

Astonishers. Gaspers. Screamers. What your exclamation point addiction or avoidance says about you.