Read personal narrative examples in children’s books, including picture books and middle grade books, as mentor texts for your own writing and to build empathy for the lives of others. Personal ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

When a character onstage or onscreen quickly addresses the audience, it’s known as an aside. Both a dramatic device for actors and a literary device for writers, asides appear across mediums to give ...

Narratologists from Gustav Freytag to Peter Brooks have proposed a paradigm of narrative progression analogous to the sexual act. While the coital metaphor may be adequate to describe the dynamics of ...