by William Miller | Jun 18, 2022 | Writing
Good stories are built from good sentences. The best plot in the world, the most interesting characters, fall apart if you don’t know how to string together a sentence. For over a year now, I’ve been in charge of selecting stories for publication in Savage Realms...
by William Miller | Apr 20, 2022 | Writing
My Thoughts on Plot (Everything Wrong with the Hero’s Journey) the article? That’s an interesting digression from my novel. 🙂 And I have lots of thoughts about plot, but maybe not enough for an article. The main thought is that it’s a literary “Sacred Cow.” I...
by William Miller | Dec 4, 2021 | Writing
If you want to make a living as an author, you need to study and become an expert in 5 very important foundational areas. These five foundations are key to becoming a best seller. All of the authors I know, who are making a living with their fiction, have these 5...
by William Miller | Apr 25, 2020 | Writing
“All stories are the same!” Joseph Campbell helped popularize this idea in his seminal work the Hero With A Thousand Faces. His contention is that all stories share the same framework. Only the names are different. I’m here to tell you; that’s wrong! The Hero’s...
by William Miller | Jan 22, 2020 | Writing
If you’ve studied story telling at all, you’ve undoubtedly run across the Hero’s Journey. You may even be under the impression it is the ONLY story model and that ALL stories are actually just retellings of the Hero’s Journey. To his credit, Joseph Campbell did a...
