Screenplay Structure
Screenplay structure allows a writer to investigate their characters and theme and get to the heart of where they exist in story.
How to Sell Your Screenplay
Selling your screenplay is a battle of outreach, portfolio, and simplicity. Learn how to balance your professional expectations with the heart of your work.
Types of Conflict in Literature
The types of conflict in literature serve to force protagonists to confront their deepest fear and reveal a story's soul through the resolution of dilemma.
The Purpose of Flat Characters
Flat characters are consistent, one-dimensional tools that provide stability and support the narrative without distracting from the main plot. By serving specific roles like providing exposition or highlighting a protagonist's growth, they prevent "character traffic jams" and keep the story’s focus where it belongs.
The Pantser Method: Writing Without an Outline
Learn how to hone your strengths as a "pantser." Discovery-based writers often succeed with creative freedom and spontaneity, but successful narratives still require an underlying structure of character transformation to avoid losing direction.
What is a Memoir? From Personal Experience to Universal Truth
The desire to write is, at its core, the desire to evolve. To dig deeper into something you’ve experienced in order to […]
3 Secrets for Getting Started on Writing Your First Novel
Every writer struggles with getting the story from imagination to the page. The first-time novelist confronts the special challenge of having never […]
