Archive: Storytelling

How to Create Characters that Drive Plot
This excellent and relatively quick exercise consists of answering fewer than 30 questions about your character.

6 Writing Tips from Jerry Seinfeld
His style comes across as so effortless and fun that it’s enough to make you believe it might just be possible for you to tell great jokes too. That is, until you try.

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my all time favorite authors. I’m in awe of his ability to communicate volumes in a single sentence. Especially since his sentences are so often funny on top of being so damn clever.