The Task Story – A “New” Genre that’s
One of the more fascinating things about the internet is its ability to highlight so many different facets of human nature. The internet has brought out the...
Telling Stories
One of the more fascinating things about the internet is its ability to highlight so many different facets of human nature. The internet has brought out the...
I’ve been wanting to do a few YouTube videos about storytelling for a while, and finally finished the first one. Let me know what you think! Rob
In this episode, Rob and Don sit down with translator and author Jeremy Bai to discuss the world of Chinese Webnovels. The trio discuss the history of...
It’s finally here! Six months ago, I started a “small” project to write a short book on writing Shonen Manga style stories. Now, 310 pages and 90,000...
A while back, I blogged about a Japanese story structure called Ki-Sho-Ten-Ketsu (Kee-Show-Ten-Ketsoo), which is normally presented as an alternative story structure which doesn’t revolve around conflict....
(This article is the first rough part of what would later become my book Write! Shonen Manga. I’m leaving it up so that people can see how...
On social media across the Internet, there is a single constant refrain- “How do I write a good story?” It comes from new writers eager to make...
Recently I did a post looking at the ideas of a writing guru called Eric Edson where among other things he made the statement that characters...
One of my favorite YouTube channels is one called Film Courage, which is a channel basically dedicated to interviewing screenwriters and screenwriting teachers. There are some fantastic...
Anyone who reads my blog knows that I’m fascinated by story structure, and recently I’ve been probing the depths of Dan Harmon’s Story Circle. The Story Circle...