Nathan B. Weller

Lifelong Learner & Doer.  Artist.  Humanist.  Literacy Advocate.

Archive: Storytelling

The Art of Dramatic Writing book cover art.

How to Create Characters that Drive Plot

This excellent and relatively quick exercise consists of answering fewer than 30 questions about your character.

Screen capture of Jerry Seinfeld being interviewed by the New York Times.

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.

Still frame from an old video recording of Kurt Vonnegut drawing the shapes of stories on a chalk board on a stage.

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.