As a child, I liked to lose myself in the process of weaving stories. This habit has never left me; instead, I’ve now extended my love for stories by churning out 50,000 word manuscripts and piecing ...

Creating a captivating story involves a delicate balance of creativity and technique. Antonya Nelson’s nine-step guide offers a structured approach to storytelling, allowing writers to craft ...

In the beginning was the word. —John 1:1, wondering how it all began It’s all text. —Rosamel Segundo Benavides Venegas, during his early postmodernist period Source: BrAt82/Shutterstock Good writing ...

This is an updated writing workshop handout from one of the workshops I first presented in the 1990s, about using story elements. An earlier version of this handout was posted on the No Train, No Gain ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...