The Writer's Workout

Who doesn't love a villain? Or at least love to hate them? Writing villains might be the best part of storytelling

If you find William Shakespeare’s work a tad stuffy, or if you feel overburdened by the near inescapable crowd of theatre scholars who...

When you think of a villain, what do you imagine? The tyrannical dictator of a dystopian novel? The gruesome monster under the bed? The...

The Jester archetype can be used in so many different ways when it comes to writing a story.

A popular trope in many romance stories is, of course, poetry.

The dust settles as the hero defeats villain after villain before continuing their quest to defeat the antagonist. What happens then?...

Who doesn’t like a bit of romance? Whether that’s in a romance novel or as a side plot in a mystery, fantasy, or sci-fi novel