Warm and Cold Stories

We all know species in the animal kingdom are warm-blooded and cold-blooded. While it’s unfair to categorize warm-blooded mammals as nurturing and caring, and cold-blooded lizards as hard-hearted and vicious, we often fall into thinking this way.  As it happens, I often view my own stories in the same way. […]

Imagine Don’t Show

In the writing world, the words “Show, don’t tell” are often given as advice. Countless blogs describe why it’s better to show and not tell, how to show instead of telling, and (naturally) why sometimes it’s better to tell and not show. Let’s go beyond that and say you’ve mastered […]