Beginning Your Story: Concentrating the Heat By now you should have a bunch of ideas calling out to you, demanding to be explored in your...

You started with a spark of inspiration, a story question or a situation worth exploring. You've brainstormed all the related ideas, th...

Once you have that spark, you'll need to gather up all the toys (story ideas) that you want to play with. There are probably many metho...

Beginning Your Story: Setting the Fire(I've been doing some writing about the process of writing, essentially trying to work through my ...

Since it is a lot to remember to think about, I wrote a little javascript application to walk through the development of the logline, the st...

The 8 Key Scenes (with an Optional 9th) Each of the four story parts begin and end with an important event that marks the transition from...

You’ve come up with an idea for a story, brainstormed all the cool elements you’d like to include and mapped out the relationships of the “...