Most movies are eerily similar to other movies.  Nearly all romantic movies are the same story.

What happens when opposing views come into conflict? That’s when trouble appears.

Why are there numerous sites devoted to Top-10 Movies, Top-10 Fiction Books, and Top-10 NFL players, but none for Top-10 Paragraphs?

It’s a tragedy when a moviemaker causes the story’s theme to become the story itself and dominate over the plot like a pack of wolves.

In our lives do we seek to personify the attributes of the Great Creator or the Great Copier?

Critiquing other people’s manuscripts of fictional works is fun for me because I start off with a declaration saying, “My comments are my...

When I’m reading a story, and one character says to another, “We’ve talked about this,” my mind is thrown from the story.

If you want your readers to hate your scenes, make every character behave foolishly.

If you’ve spent any time studying the rules of writing fiction, you’ll know that stories must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Howeve

Deciding to write a unique novel is like deciding to write a better one. You must ask yourself, “Unique in what way?”

Before you can successfully break a grammatical or well-established rule of fiction, you must first master the rule.

Isn’t it true that many Hollywood movies lately are remakes, sequels, or based on fifty-year-old comic books?

In polite company, when people say, “Avoid doing such-and-such,” what they really mean is, “Never do that or you’re wretched filth.”