Joanna Bourne

I came across this in my reading.  The article considers, "How does the hero confront violence without becoming violent themself?...

Both these movies have multi-racial casts and pass the Bechdel test. For me, that's icing on the cake rather than a requirement. But — ...

I'm thinking tonight about how characters deal with the acquisition and use of immense magical power. How do you write this? Ilona Andre...

I was talking to a friend who is looking at the final stages of her Southern Gothic manuscript. She says, kinda doubtful, "What do I do...

Watched Mulan -- the live action movie, not the cartoon. It works, and the story message is one a lot of young girls and women want to hear....

  There are folks who get the words right the first time they lay them down. I am not one of those people. Think of it as shoot...

Someone mentioned -- this is a kinda summary and paraphrase here -- the unlikelihood that our Hero and Heroine would fight a pitched ba...

Elsewhere, someone asks -- I'm paraphrasing here -- "Can I put my big consummation scene as the end of the story?" I lo...

Starting out with an honi soit qui mal y pense , we're talking about how plot action relates to the number of words we need to write it....

Someone asked elsewhere -- (I'm paraphrasing here)  "My story is about several main characters.  Which one do I build my query ...