Plot Articles

By Rachel Leitch By A Concerned Sequel Destroyer ​ You’ve finished your first book or film or whatever it was you were working on. Now your audience or your mother or maybe just yourself are clamoring for a second installment. Am I right? Oh, good. I love being right....

By Arien Andersen While today we think of The Lord of the Rings as being the book from which every fantasy author draws, J. R. R. Tolkien himself drew heavily from ancient epics.  Remember how Boromir and Théoden split their horns by blowing so hard? The same...

By Grace A. Johnson ​ Most of y’all know that I’m a diehard pantser. I can’t help but wing my stories, jumping headfirst into the first chapter without properly planning each chapter, each scene, each paragraph. A lot of us see pantsing as something only hobby writers...