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 ...

Max Barry's book Lexicon was voted fourth best science fiction novel of the year by Goodreads, and now he's put together a (mostly serious) list of steps ...

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 ...

How can you make great headlines? More than anything, you need an interesting story. Even the greatest headline writer in the world will fail with a boring or confusing story. That's because the ...

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 ...