Plot Planning

What is a Plot? To put it simply: you can’t have a story without a plot. It doesn’t matter if you have a strong concept, an incredible cast of characters, an important...

As children, we learned stories begin with "once upon a time" and end with "happily ever after." While this may be the most simplistic view of a story, it offers storytellers...

John Wilkerson, sci-fi author, journalist, and ghostwriter, is a bit of a plotter and a bit of a pantser. However, he prefers the term “dungeon crawler.” Before starting...

In this interview at BEA 2017, author Liz Nugent talks about her new thriller, Unraveling Oliver , and what it's like sitting across a table from a convicted murderer...

How o you write a story that is so gripping and terrifying that people are uncomfortable keeping the book in the house? According to Eric Penz, the difference between...