Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon has been admittedly obsessed with story structure for years. Out of that obsession came his Story Circle, which is basically a simplified version of…
(And Why It's a Good Show for Writers) If you don’t know what The Fall is, it’s a BBC/RTE (Irish) series available on Netflix. It’s basically the classic cat-mouse game…
Iago, it is commonly held, is Shakespeare's most evil character, the portrait of evil itself. He also happens to be one of my favorite characters. When looking at why Iago…
In preparing to write my new book Fortune's Flame, I listened to and read several historical books, mostly nonfiction, and not all of them taking place in the era of…
This rather science-y article reminds me of the book Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It. According to Wikipedia, because Maclean was too young…