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My coworker has been asking me to read Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices trilogy for quite some time. I tried her original...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is not a perfect book. It is, however, a very good book, and damn if it didn't make me feel something....

When I teach workshops on creative writing, I try to reference stories most of my students will be familiar with. . . Star Wars. . ....

I recently taught a workshop on Creating Character Arcs, and in preparing for it, I threw myself deep into the craft of storytelling so much so that I forgot to consider some of the simple, beginner aspects of character arcs that new writers might not be familiar with. As my students began asking me questions, I realized I needed to take a step back and go over some of the basics. So I wanted to take a minute and write about a few misconceptions some of my students had about

Tips for helping you decide what screenwriting books on craft you should read out of the dozens that are so often recommended.

This blog post explores the relationship between dialogue and setting and why some words are more suited for certain worlds than others.

If you've never read a screenplay before, you've never seen a parenthetical before. It's a formatting device used exclusively in...

Remembering that character arcs are all about inner change, there are many stories where the protagonist fails to change, or changes for...

When I mention the movie The Dark Knight and dialogue, which quotes first come to mind? Is it this one? Or perhaps this one? Or perhaps...

The second element in a screenplay is the action line. This is sometimes called description, direction, or just action, and it describes...