I recently attended a small business class which provided information about the topic of blogging. Someone in the class made a comment about the fact that she is sad to see blogging replace “real journalism” because it’s such an impulsive form of writing. One of the things that she mentioned about this was that so [...]

Did you know that the United States Marine Corps has a recommended reading list? It’s true, and while the core list is relatively short, the broader list of additional recommendations is long and quite varied. Most of the list is made up of nonfiction: biographies, strategic guides, books on military theory, philosophy. However, among all [...]

Scribo-note: Megan Christopher has moved on from Scribophile to other pursuits. We’d like to thank her for all of the great posts she’s put up in the past few months. If you’d like to follow her other work, you can check out her blog at http://hollywoodjane.com.
We’d also like to introduce Kathryn Vercillo, the [...]

Storytelling, like most arts, has a way of revealing more about the artist than it does about the story being told. How characters are portrayed, the plots and events the author chooses to tell, how the exposition is handled: all these and more lie shallow in the narrative like gold glitter in a stream bed, [...]

Forums Updates

Our crusty old forums software already had a few grey hairs when we first started using it, and after a year and a half of faithful service, we decided it was finally time to get off of our lazy asses and upgrade. The differences that you’ll notice are small, but it’s the little [...]

Here’s a pop quiz to start off this here blog entry. What do the following folks have in common: Repairman Jack, Thursday Next, Harry Dresden, Garrett, Dexter Morgan, Hap and Leonard, Stephanie Plum and Jack Reacher? Since you’re all avid readers, you already know: Each of these folks are fictional characters, and star in their [...]