This is an updated writing workshop handout from one of the workshops I first presented in the 1990s, about using story elements. An earlier version of this handout was posted on the No Train, No Gain ...

As a child, I liked to lose myself in the process of weaving stories. This habit has never left me; instead, I’ve now extended my love for stories by churning out 50,000 word manuscripts and piecing ...

What if literature was an invention for making us happier and healthier? wenjin chen/Getty Images Shortly after 335 B.C., within a newly built library tucked just east of Athens’ limestone city walls, ...