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How To Plot A Story ... In other words, I didn't have a plot. It's a fundamental truth that most fiction writers will create their first few stories without a clear understanding of plot...

Short Story Writing Tips - Does The Conflict Affect Your Character? ... Conflicts create waves in our calm lives. The greater the conflict the more impact it will have on us...

A Personal Injury Story ... The crisp winds of fall brush by your face, it is Sunday morning, and you are feeling REAL good. Strolling down Main Street, you are mesmerized by the beauty of the quaint architecture...

Discovering Infidelity - One Woman's Story ... The day I discovered my husband was cheating on me is forever etched in my mind. I will never forget my bewilderment, shock, confusion and my uncertainty about what to do next...

Short Story Writing Tips - Does The Resolution Of The Conflict Come From The Conflict? ... If in your story the conflict arises from a decision the character has to make, then the conflict will be solved when your character makes a decision....

I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech and that reminds me of a story that’s so dirty I’m ashamed to think of it myself.
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, as a newly-appointed college president commenting on the remarks of Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)

The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)