Narrative tools

Note: This article discusses psychiatric illness and suicide. Conventional movie narratives have a three-act, linear structure, with a climax somewhere…

Captain America is brave and charming. Atticus Finch is honorable and intelligent. Frodo Baggins is loyal and wise. But how…

Subversive, startling, and seductive. Not words you typically associate with children’s picture books; yet picture books can teach a lot…

People have tried to define “story” since the dawn of time (probably), but is there really one agreed-upon definition? We…

Claire Blevins is a University of Alabama graduate with degrees in journalism and creative writing. She now works as a…

I once took a digital music class where we were taught that the most basic definition of ‘music’ is this: sound…

Setting. Where does the story take place? It is a simple question at face value and often one of the…