#Climax

Russell F. Hirsch

Oct 25, 20232 min read

Descriptive Language that Sparkles

Kill your darlings! Get to the point! Plot over prose! How many times have you heard advice about simplifying your writing for middle...

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Russell F. Hirsch

Oct 11, 20231 min read

We all know the feeling of finding our tribe. Whether we were kids discovering new friends on the playground, teens navigating a new...

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Russell F. Hirsch

Jan 11, 2019

Today on Storythreads, the worlds of Indian mythology and space opera collide in Sangu Mandanna’s YA novel, A Spark of White Fire, the...

Russell F. Hirsch

Jul 31, 2017

Today is Harry Potter’s 37th birthday and in homage to the birthday boy-who-lived and the continuing summer festivities marking the 20th...

Russell F. Hirsch

Jan 2, 2017

Happy New Year to all! We have reached the 10th and final stage of a hero’s journey plot line and a fitting stage it is for January 1st...

Russell F. Hirsch

Dec 11, 2016

The beginning of THE END! We enter the third and final phase of a hero’s journey plot line. Act 3 Propelling Event Climax (aka Death &...