Seven Tips for Receiving Feedback How you can make criticism as constructive as possible. December 12, 2014August 4, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi in Writing
Five Books on Writing Fantasy, Compared What these guides will and won't teach you about crafting fantastical stories. December 5, 2014December 2, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Should You Show or Tell? How far you should zoom your story in—and when you should zoom out. October 31, 2014August 6, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Staying Interested in Your Work How to maintain investment in the stories you craft, even when it wanes. September 12, 2014August 6, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Should You Outline? Whether or not to plan your story's big points from the outset—and what you can do instead. September 5, 2014August 6, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Six Tips for Doing More With Less How to get your story elements firing on all cylinders. July 25, 2014April 12, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Storytelling, Writing
The Four Rules of Using Fake Words When and how to use your story's imaginary vocab—and when English can work just fine. July 11, 2014August 25, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Worldbuilding, Writing
The Myth Called “Running Out of Ideas” Why your brain really does have more to say—and how to get it talking. July 4, 2014August 7, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Distinguishing Characters in Dialogue How your story's stars can shine through their words. June 6, 2014August 7, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Episode 22: Are Multiple Points of View Good or Bad? Oren argues that multiple viewpoints are awesome and everyone should love them forever. May 25, 2014August 26, 2021 by Chris Winkle, Oren Ashkenazi, and Mike Hernandez
Three Ways You Can Use Description to Mess With Your Readers If they have to reread your story for it to make sense, they're still rereading it, right? April 4, 2014August 8, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
Four Steps for Making Campaigns Into Written Stories How your RPG story can make the leap from kitchen table to page. March 28, 2014August 8, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Roleplaying, Storytelling, Writing
Episode 15: The Hero’s Journey Chris, Oren and Mike discuss mythic structure and the wide variety of works that use it. February 16, 2014December 2, 2022 by Chris Winkle, Oren Ashkenazi, and Mike Hernandez
Three Experiments You Shouldn’t Try Very few have done them before—but that's because they won't work. January 31, 2014August 8, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Storytelling, Writing
Three Ways to Plot With Index Cards Try these hands-on tricks for planning your next story. January 12, 2014December 13, 2022 by Dash Buck in Writing
Tying Your Plot Together How to weave your story's strands together into a cohesive whole. January 10, 2014December 21, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Storytelling, Writing
Life After NaNoWriMo What to do when you've cracked the 50,000-word threshold. November 29, 2013August 10, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Writing
The Keys to a Great Opening Scene How your beginning can hook readers from the get-go. November 15, 2013August 11, 2021 by Chris Winkle in Storytelling, Writing
Writing for Roleplaying Games How you can get paid to pen your favorite RPG's next edition. October 26, 2013August 11, 2021 by Mike Hernandez in Roleplaying, Writing
Episode 6: A Dialogue on Dialogue October 13, 2013August 26, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi, Mike Hernandez, and Chris Winkle
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