Macro vs. Micro Thinking

Hi Gang. Craig here, and you get me twice this week. I was on vacation when I wrote this post. It will go live shortly after I return to my paycheck job. I’d just put in a decent day of writing (2000 words) when the topic came to me. My way of writing a book …

Expansion Pack: Character Archetypes + a trick

Hi gang. Craig here with you again. Last year sometime, I wrote a series here about The Hero’s Journey. This is a link to PART ONE. Then I went on to write several Expansion Packs. Those are easy enough to find by using the search function at the very bottom of our page. I’m not …

Expansion Pack: The Stakes Character

Hi gang, Craig here again with another Expansion Pack. These are designed to enhance the series I wrote about The Hero’s Journey, also known as the Writing Monomyth. It’s worth repeating that none of the Expansion Pack material is required for your stories. These are just as advertised. If you want to get a bit …

Where You Can Find Content for Your Newsletter

Hello and happy Monday to all the Story Empire readers. PH here and back this week with more about newsletters. There are two previous posts about this topic which you can find here and here. Newsletter content is the topic today, one with which a lot of writers surprisingly struggle. Well, maybe not everyone, but …

Expansion Pack: The Villain’s Journey + The Monster

Hi Gang, Craig with you again. Time for another Expansion Pack that ties in with The Hero’s Journey, also known as the Writing Monomyth. This time we’re dealing with our villains. Before you go all feral on me, there are some stories where the antagonist isn’t a human. Man vs Nature, Man vs Self, that …