I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear , as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never...

  Hi, everyone! I was asked to do a guest post about what I call "Life Hooks"—the recording of memories that lets us yoke our life...

  The Fab Four Synopsis-Creation Method I’m doing a synopsis-brainstorming session this week with my plotting students (If you’d like access...

Use Feedback Videos to Improve Retention and Growth in Online Writing Courses    https://www.coursehero.com/faculty-club/best-lessons/feedba...

   For Dappled Things By Alicia Rasley     Coincidence is trivial, tricky, falsely weird. But… it’s also magical. Appreciate coinc...

  One of my books got remaindered last year, so I got to buy hundreds of copies very cheap. That's a good thing (except the boxes are ta...

I have an endless supply of these revision-needed sentences, so I'm going to continue to harangue you. :)  In longer sentences, you will...

Rules, Rules, Can I Please Break Them?   Okay, one more guy making rules! This is Raymond Chandler's hard-won wisdom on plotting the cri...

  S.S. Van Dine's 20 Rules for Detective Stories THE DETECTIVE story is a kind of intellectual game. It is more — it is a sporting event...