It is so hard to ideate and to get story details from your brain to the page in this modern world. It feels like everything ...

What are the rules for storytelling in fantasy writing? When thinking about stories, the ultimate test for storytelling rules lies in the world of fantasy and fiction writing. In these magical worlds ...

Western Massachusetts-based author Holly Black is well known to fans of fantasy literature. She was a co-writer of “The Spiderwick Chronicles,” a best-selling children's series that was made into a ...

Creative writing is something everyone’s tried with varying success. But anyone who’s serious about it knows it’s a trickier endeavor than meets the eye. With The Creative Writing Course Bundle, you ...

Every morning, after I’ve secured the intravenous drip from the coffee pot into my arm, I knock out a couple of hours of fiction writing. That’s not exactly surprising as I’m a science-fiction author ...

There’s no other story quite like The Princess Bride. Fantasy novels are so often focused on the action, the universe-saving battles and the brooding warriors who fight them, but The Princess Bride is ...

In a workshop to discuss how academic and creative writing are related, my colleagues and I spent most of our time talking about guilt. All of us felt guilty about the hours we had spent writing ...

As generation-bridging marketing statements go, Alexis Kennedy's "It's sort of YouTube for choose-your-own-adventure," is pretty catchy. For me, it conjurers up memories of abortive attempts at ...

Jordan Boyd is a Staff Writer at DualShockers, specializing in indie games, RPGs and shooting titles. He's majoring in journalism at Stony Brook University on Long Island. During the 7th console ...