Writing

Year Nine
Posts
1/1/23

Things I’ve always wanted to do, but …

The Antagonist’s Plan
Posts
11/3/22

Stories are usually focused on one character called the protagonist. Readers see through their eyes, experience …

Two Kinds of Writers
Posts
10/29/22

I see two kinds of writers at the writing groups I attend.

Type One

First and most common are the ones doing …

John Sandford (John Camp)
Posts
4/13/22

I attended a book signing by John Sandford, a pseudonym used by John Camp, at Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Bookstore …

Story to Screenplay to Movie
Posts
4/10/22

The movie “Arrival” (2016), in spite of its sometimes slow progress, has intrigued me for some time. After …

Interactive Fiction with Twine
Posts
2/23/22

Twine is an editor and converter for IF, Interactive Fiction. Writers use it to create the kind that is text-based as opposed …

Where Stories Come From
Posts
1/26/22

It’s not pretty.

Which Template?
Posts
9/4/21

When a new idea gets my juices flowing, I want to write it down before it gets away. If I’m at my notebook computer, a …

Labels, Labels, and Labels in Scrivener
Posts
7/29/21

If it’s in the Binder, you can assign it a label, but only one label. That seems rather limiting, don’t you …

Robert Carlson’s Ultimate Story Structure Chart
Posts
6/1/21

Robert Carlson created a summary chart of thirteen (13) story structure overviews. …