The Story Engine Blog

I'm thrilled to announced that the standalone sequel to The Story Engine Deck has just launched on Kickstarter! Deck of Worlds helps you build lore...

Guest blog by Tommaso De Benetti, the head of The World Anvil Publishing and the new Broken Tales RPG Kickstarter. I am a terrible writer. Not in t...

Staying inspired to write is hard enough at the best of times, and I find it only gets harder around the holidays. The time and energy you spend wi...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people they need NaNoWriMo. Okay, that’s not quite fair. NaNoWriMo can be a transformative ...

I'm a writer, and I'm notoriously hard to buy gifts for. That goes double for holiday gifts. I'm pretty sure it comes with the writer lifestyle. Ev...

Okay, so around the time NaNoWriMo kicked off, I posed a bold question to the Internet on my Facebook page, and was greeted with equally bold answe...

The month of NaNoWriMo is upon us, and we’ve just reached the halfway point. In my experience, it’s also the point where a lot of writers get stuck...

I’m a big fan of NaNoWriMo. For the uninitiated, that's "National Novel Writing Month," when writers gear up to pound out 50,000 words of a novel t...

Horror often gets short shrift as a pop genre low on literary merit. That never fails to get my hackles up. Telling a good horror story requires an...

Horror is a genre that presses the buttons of human fear psychology to produce a profound response in the reader or audience. An important part of ...

In my last blog from the “How to Have Halloween at Home” series, I recommended hosting an online scary story circle as an alternative to going out ...

I’ve been on a mission to give people fun, spooky alternatives to going out on Halloween during COVID-19. So far, I’ve given my suggestions for hos...