Peter J Story

Story Spotlight: Bloodline – Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman

This story stunned me in its slow, deliberate pacing. The plot of Bloodline, a Netflix original, was developed with care, and each reveal…

Rarely does a story come along that blows me away purely from a writing standpoint. Back in April I wrote…

I feel compelled to write. About a number of things, really, but mostly fiction. But it wasn’t always that way–a compelling…

While working on my debut novel, Things Grak Hates, I struggled with a constant stream of doubt, mostly during the…

As promised, here are more thoughts on my adventures with Scrivener so far. I recently switched to a different system for working…

In his work, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl does a marvelous job of both relating the story of his…

Ex Machina, by Alex Garland, left me uneasy. That’s how I know it was an excellent movie. Now don’t get me…

In their movie, Welcome to Me, Eliot Laurence and Shira Piven built what I consider to be dry, deliberate humor at…

It’s hard to beat Tolkien on my list of favorite authors. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are…

Every now and then, someone comes along and perfectly expresses something you’ve been feeling. I recently read an interview with Beau Willimon,…