For my internship with Sanford Springvale News, my first assignment was to write up a city news story about a small failing bridge….

What stood out to me the most when reading this short story was the lack of information. The kind of information that draws…

A significant factor that hadn’t even dawned on me really until reading this chapter is the importance of setting. I mean, yes, obviously…

A story can be very plain without dialogue but you must be careful about the amount you use. Whether you want your story…

I’ve had endless encounters with people who have me constantly questioning my trust in people on the daily. I find those who aren’t…

When thinking of what aspects of “Yellow Tulips” by Nathan Curtis Roberts I enjoyed reading, a very simple answer comes to mind. I…

Chapter 5 focuses on the description aspect of storytelling. A couple ways to go about this that I found stuck out to me…

Like the previous chapters explains, another key element in writing fiction is point of view (POV). Important questions to be asking yourself are:…

In Sarah Braunstein’s short story “Abject Naturalism,” she mentions a very common style found in a lot of literary short stories today. She…

Real life is anticlimactic. A good story has a climax. A character does something because it has meaning behind it. In real life…