A lively plot in a literary novel? The worthy works of 2025 revel in storytelling.

Jenna Guarneri, Founder and CEO of JMG Public Relations, an award-winning PR firm for innovators and their mission-driven startup companies. Storytelling is one of the core elements of modern branding ...

Not creativity. Not effort. Not even expertise. What’s missing is narrative discipline. Narrative discipline is what transforms isolated content into a strategic story. It’s how leaders frame what’s ...

Show, don’t tell. It’s probably the most overused phrase in the storyteller’s caboodle, but that’s probably because it’s true. There is nothing more tedious than an expository slog in the opening act ...

The literary landscape of the 21st century seems more and more divided when it comes to one particular aspect: plot. Some books have it; others don’t. The have-nots have gotten a lot of critical ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

Fatima Naeem is a writer of sorts from Pakistan who has over five years of writing experience under her belt, and a completely accidental physics degree (because come on, no one plans these things, ...

How often do you really, deeply investigate the story or narrative you hold about yourself? The concepts of narrative therapy (as detailed in my new book, The Narrative Therapy Workbook for ...

Love and Deepspace is pulling off a rare trick, as a live-service game with a story that its players actually seem to care about! There's not an awful lot of extra content gated behind the main ...