If you’ve ever watched a movie or TV show and felt like something doesn't quite make sense, or that a series of events doesn’t work out logically, you likely ...

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Minimalistic writing is a concept derived from literature. It was popularized by history’s greatest writers, such as Ernest ...

In the first episode of the Netflix adaptation of Vikram Chandra’s best-selling novel, Sacred Games, the criminal kingpin Ganesh Gaitonde makes a phone call to a detective, Sartaj Singh. “I want to ...

Most screenplays use some form of a plot device. But a bad plot device can ruin an otherwise acceptable screenplay, so screenwriters must be careful to craft storytelling devices in a way that ...

When Michelle McAfee joined a memoir-writing project at Oakland’s Temescal library, she was eager to recount tales about growing up African-American in mostly white central Contra Costa County in the ...