Writing Lessons & Advice: Story Star Life Simulator
I’m a fan of simulation games. The sandbox, open-world, world-building, customizable, role-playing, and/or choice-driven elements this...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Basics of Plot
I feel a need to apologize...my pantsing ways have caught up with me. I recently realized that, in my previous lesson about plot and...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Pantsers vs. Plotters
Writers go by many identities: authors, bloggers, journalists, essayists, novelists, poets, critics, playwrights...but a couple less...
Writing Lessons & Advice: National Novel Writing Month
As established in a previous lesson, fifty thousand words is a general minimum for a novel. Believe it or not, many writing enthusiasts...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Literary Genres
Key ingredients of a typical story are setting, characters, plot, and theme. A story’s plot can have unique qualities that ultimately...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Fanfiction
Today’s lesson is loosely based on a Twitter post: The fuller context of this remark is within a growing battle between human- and...