The term “prescriptivism” gets thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean?

But what is a flat character, really? Where did the term come from, and is it always bad?

Most writers will seek out editing at some point, but what kind of editing should you get?

Behold, an introduction, a beginning if you will, and we shall, heretofore, lay out the topic.

A phrase that sounds perfectly harmless to one person can be deeply unsettling to another.

Readers need to know things to understand your story. They need to know a whole bunch of things. But writing is a linear art form, meaning you can’t just download all the necessary info at once. So what are authors to do? That’s what we’re talking about today: how to get your audience the information […]

How to put words on paper? Should you write every day, or just when you’re feeling inspired? Is there any point to tracking your word count or using specialized writing software? This week, we’re talking about productivity in writing, something that seems to be on everyone’s minds even more than usual, what with the plague […]

Sometimes a story is created as one thing, but you want to make it into another thing. Books to movies, TV shows to video games, graphic novels to roleplaying games – all of this is adaptation. Today, we’re nerding out on how adaptation works, how it can go wrong, and why the book is not […]

Due to a number of prejudices and misunderstandings, a lot of people don’t understand what fanfiction is or how it works. Today, we aim to fix that. We talk about what makes something fanfiction, why most of the negativity around it is unearned, and what the advantages of fanfiction are. Plus, the challenges authors face […]

In storytelling, happy endings are the default for good reason. But there is another option. Sometimes the story doesn’t end well; nothing goes the hero’s way, and they either die or lose what is most precious to them. That’s right, this episode is about tragedies: how to write them, what the requirements are, and why […]