Theory
The Five Elements of Fiction
There are five main elements of fiction to be found in (nearly) every piece of fiction: plot, setting characters, narrative perspective, and theme. Plot is the sequence of events and their relationship in a […]
Story Design (Freytag’s Pyramid)
Classical plot Aelius Donatus, a Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric from the mid-fourth century AD, gave a plot structure for plays (novels did not exist yet). Very simply put, a play has a beginning […]
What is literature and why read it?
What is literature? There is no definition, there are no boundaries that tell what makes a work literary. There is a continuous debate on what is literature, as if the term itself is the holy […]