The Sudowrite Story Engine is a superpowered tool for helping writers finish their passion projects. Here's how to use it.

Introduction Your first story was just the beginning. Many of our best contributors write follow-up stories - adding new insight, updates, or angles on what they first shared. Here's how to create ...

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 ...

The Quarry has 186 different ending variations, so we spoke to The Quarry’s director about the challenges involved in creating a choice-driven horror game.

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 writer Frank Cottrell Boyce has some ...

Now comes Kurt Vonnegut -- anarchist, Second Life dweller, imaginary interviewer of the dead, sad soul -- with eight tips on how to write a good short story, narrated by the author himself.

That’s why I encourage everyone to work on their own story as a way of sorting out what its next chapter ought to be. The ability to clearly articulate your personal story is critical to forging ...

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 ...