How to write a good story in 800 words or less As a new award is named for Roy Peter Clark, we revisit the writing coach's tips on writing short ...

What remains, Book 1, is the oldest extant work of dramatic and literary theory, and could also have been entitled, What Makes a Story Work or, How to Write a Good Story.

When people talk about how to write a great story, you hear a lot about structure, and how to lay down the track so that the audience is swept along. But ...

You don’t need to be a professional author or a scholar to write a good story. But you might be wondering where to start as there are millions of ideas.

Here’s what I learned from taking a course in video game story writing, including some useful tips on how it differs from writing novels and screenplays.

It's kind of a truism that everyone has a book in them, right? We all have some kind of story to tell. But it's equally true that a lot of us have those crummy little inner voices telling us it's ...

Most importantly, by the story’s end “all of the characters should be very, very tired.” That last note points to what Elizabeth Kolbert calls “one of the great themes of bedtime ...

Most of the good stories we tell can be told in 800 words or less. Let me try one. It involves my father, Ted Clark, who used to have the annoying habit of sucking on ice cubes, which he was doing ...