Literary theorist Norm Friedman offered incredible new ways to think about and categorize plots. His work can help writers better unders...

The principles of literary theory help writers tell better stories. Here is a presentation where I discuss key concepts in literary theo...

Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is a perfect example of Aristotle's dramatic structure. Here are my notes on how...

Using the famous "5 Stages of Grief" as his model, Editor Shawn Coyne develops a theory of character that helps the writer deliver compel...

Hemingway on writing and the writing life. Here he is in his own immortal words.

Horace writes a book on craft disguised as a poem. His poem, Ars Poetica, is a classic of literary criticism and became the key text for...

David Mamet discusses the fundamentals of story and gets right down to the most essential, most profound elements of writing forceful dra...

In Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own she analyzes classic books written by women and discusses what it means to be a female writ...

This ancient text on story lays out what aesthetics are and why the writer must rely on them. Here are my notes on Longinus's brilliant ...

The great theorist Cleanth Brooks says writers can only step into the universal by going through the narrow door of the particular. Here...