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Finding Your Story’s True Home: A Writer’s Guide to Choosing the Right Medium
Your brilliant story idea is bouncing around your brain like a caffeinated ping-pong ball. You know it’s good—maybe even great—but here’s the million-dollar question that keeps you up at night: Should this be a novel?[…]
The Genre Revolution: Science Fiction Makes Emmy History
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The Collaboration Advantage: When 1 + 1 = 3
How to find and work with writing partners who elevate your craft, five proven collaboration structures that actually work, real-world examples from successful prose and screenwriting teams, practical exercises for testing partnership compatibility, and why[…]
FROM THE PAGE TO THE SCREEN: Crafting Visual Stories
Have you written a novel that readers say “would make a great movie”? Do you have a story idea that keeps playing out like scenes in your head rather than flowing as traditional prose? Many[…]