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…

Chapter two, Character: Casting Shadows, focuses on building characters. There are many factors that go into this, a lot more than one might…

I found Raymond Carver’s Cathedral to be very interesting because I’ve never read anything like it before. I think these types of stories…

Though some don’t recognize it—birds can be seen as an accurate representation of life. Refuge, a memoir by Terry Tempest Williams explores many…