You introduce your characters, establish the scene, and start to introduce the main conflict of your novel in this section of your book. The exposition of a story frequently only lasts a few chapters ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was considering the possibility that there might be more to screen drama than external conflict-driven plotting when, as if hit by a thunderbolt, a new paradigm of ...

So, you’re telling me these are not all stories about an innocent outsider who gets swept up into a confusing or chaotic situation: who first responds passively or reactively by merely trying to ...