Character Development

Television characters of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s had more variety and likability than the characters of modern TV shows, believes Herbie J Pilato, a writer, producer...

In his 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces , Professor Joseph Campbell laid out the literary hero’s journey, a common path that story protagonists follow in which...

In novels, readers are exposed to much more information than they typically would find when watching a TV show or movie. Writer and psychotherapist Dr. Stacey Simmons...

In novels and contemporary real life, women are commonly forced into living out one of two stereotypes, says writer and psychotherapist Dr. Stacey Simmons. Most often...

After working in theater, author Naomi Brett Rourke still uses the lessons she learned there in her novel writing. In theater, you have to dig deeply into a character...