How to Stop a Serial Killer. (cover story)The author suggests that treatment of large outbreaks of malaria in Africa is possible and economical. Through use of insecticides and artemisinin-based combination therapies, malaria deaths could be reduced by 90% or more. Using these methods have led ...
The outskirts of Odessa, Texas,don’t look that different today than they did 25 years ago, when Little killed Denise Brothers — one of the women whose murders he described to me and whose story I decided to investigate myself. The town is surrounded by a dust-caked moonscape studded ...
more specific tropes, such as the missing child, the stranger who knows too much, the family member who committed a crime, and dozens of others. You can decide on the more specific tropes as you begin to write your story.
That said, I know when I’m writing, I try to never think about stuff like that. I try to never wonder about the weight that that puts on the story that I’m trying to make. For me, I’m conscious of it, but I try to not let it bother me. Great writers of sex have ...
You can also write about how setting affects character. In Jack London's "To Build a Fire," the subzero conditions of the Yukon advance the story by forcing him to adapt to survive. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," the contrasting neighborhoods of East Egg and West Egg cre...
What makes a good scary story? Here’s a few pointers on how to write a scary story to start you off in the right direction.
Usually, when we write, we’re trying to evoke a specific emotion in our audience. Maybe it’s fear or sadness or happiness or awe. By creating a convincing mood, we give our readers cues for how they should feel. The mood also helps pull our readers right into the story, just like...
Some of you may be paragraph hookers (yes, that’s a thing), and that’s okay, because while the title and first line are important, the first two hooks, the supporting paragraph can either be the hook or it can expand upon the first line to build out your story. Whatever you put ...
A screenplay is story prepared in a visual form, either for movie scripts or television or streaming shows. It's a way to format and write story for an audience to watch. But what is the process of writing a screenplay? How do you even begin? And why is it important to know how wri...
What if you write a script that would be likeWhen a Stranger Callsfor the VCR generation of teenagers who really know their horror movies? Williamson turned that into an outline, thinking of it as maybe a one-act play or short story. ...