Choosing the right character to narrate this smaller story is critical to its success.

Good fiction is made up of bad decisions.

Which all begs the question: Why are they selling themselves to this one specific lawyer so hard?

A Darling is a scene, a character, a line, whatever, that you, as the writer, are completely attached to but it doesn’t actually work.

To get a story, you have to dig. Either dig into the past, asking “but why?” or “but how?” or dig into the future by asking “so what?”.

Our word of the week is “preface” - as in, the stuff you need to know before you dive in. This episode is a good opportunity to talk...

The episode begins with Marshall casually looking at Robin’s butt as she walks away, and while Marshall is super embarrassed about it,...

Once again, Ted opens this episode with an ominous teaser. “Life was good. But everything was about to change.” He’s telling us the...

This episode I want to talk about unreliable narrators. We have to set that up from the beginning because the first example I want to...