It has been said you are what you eat. People take this to mean it has to do with food. Perhaps they should. The origin is summarized...

Someday I am going to … What? What is your someday? Climb a specific mountain? See a specific world wonder? Say something you have always...

Enter the villain. The antagonist. The counter to the heroes and heroines. The bad one. Something becomes relatable and visceral when we...

Today is all about nonfiction, because today is about trustworthiness. Do you trust what you read? Should you? There are many good and...

For me, in many ways, person versus society is the scariest of the conflicts. Gods you are pretty much stuck, if they want to fight you...

I was considering today the endings of things. I was considering it for a five-book series I just completed, but I was not considering it...

If you were guaranteed that trying one more time would change the outcome, would you do it? Would you put up with 100 rejections to...

As we continue down the road of conflicts we come next to person versus high powers. These can show up in many forms and are very...

If you are a reader, sometimes it might feel like you are the only one. This question might come to mind when you talk to family, friends...

To borrow an analogy from exercise, life is not a sprint. Life is not a marathon. Like is more than even an ultramarathon. It is a run...

Perhaps the furthest removed from our modern society, a person versus nature is still a wonderful read, and a very valid story structure....

If we wanted to get better at throwing a ball through a hoop from fifty feet away, how would we do it? Think about the question. We might...

Captain hook is perhaps the quintessential character for me who feared death. Perhaps if not death he feared time. What more literal...

Over the next few weeks we are going to focus on different kind of conflicts, what we can learn from each of them, what they provide to...

We have talked before about the outsourcing of our database to the world around us, the negative repercussions of this to the creative...

Whether you are dealing with writing, or any other creative pursuits, athletic pursuits, academic or work pursuits, I think every person...

That’s almost a tautology. Here is what I mean. We open a book, and the book is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. We learn about a...

Have you ever been reading, and while your eyes are absolutely scanning over the page and your mind is hearing the words, you haven’t...

I enjoy writing science fiction and fantasy, and I enjoy reading it too. Different people like different levels of immersion. Some reader...

The idea of a binge read or a binge watch or a rapid consumption of everything about a creator is very popular these days. I am guilty of...