A Very Good Place To Start

The workshop I spent the most time in at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference (SBWC) was called Story Structure for all Genres. Playwright and author, Dale Griffiths Stamos, provides brief lecture and then conducts interview-style one-on-ones with each author, discussing their overall work.

I’m still very new to writing so it takes only the simplest of ideas to blow my mind. In this case, asking the simplest of questions: What *IS* writing? This answer surprised me by focusing on one way to...