There is no story without a plot. The essential plot elements take readers through the narrative, telling them what’s happening and why it matters. Plot is typically the first inkling a writer has ...

If you’ve ever watched a whitetail deer browse, you’ve seen them nonchalantly pick specific plants to devour while ignoring others. A fancy way of describing that behavior is to say that deer are ...

Charleston will be the point of embarkation for an transcontinental excursion that ends almost 4,000 miles away in the 49th state, requiring travelers to board five ships and at least two airplanes to ...

Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making a noisy case against it. In her 2021 polemic, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” the literary critic Parul Sehgal argued that ...

In the R programming language, the de facto standard framework for drawing rectangular coordinates is ggplot2. The most important feature of ggplot2 is that it is object-oriented and uses the plus ...

Have you ever heard someone describe your favorite movie in a way that completely changed your perception of its story forever… or at least made you chuckle a little? Cinephiles have been coming up ...

Most screenplays use some form of a plot device. But a bad plot device can ruin an otherwise acceptable screenplay, so screenwriters must be careful to craft storytelling devices in a way that ...

For most websites, the homepage represents your brand’s first interaction with your audience on your website. As the catch-all landing page where people will be sent by default, your homepage needs to ...

Mason is a Senior Author responsible for the creation of Movie List Articles and Movie Feature Articles. Author of nearly 50 published articles, Mason's creative tenure with Collider only continues to ...

For a brief moment earlier this month, I thought an old acquaintance had passed away. I was still groggy one morning when I checked my phone to find a notification delivering the news. “Obituary ...