What is Omniscient Point of View? And how can it be used effectively?

Literally “all knowing”, this is a storyteller who knows what each and every character is feeling and thinking, in the past, present and future. It’s not easy to get right.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a German novelist sketched out a triangle shape for plots in what has come to be known as Freytag's pyramid, aka a “dramatic arc.”

How to write a quick first draft for a short short story. Keep in mind 3 essential elements: set-up, action, and resolution.

Characters in stories must be located somewhere in time and space because readers need to feel situated and fairly quickly.

Writers need to make readers feel invested in what characters go through.