Scott D. Parker: Storyteller

What did you expect from Kevin Smith, a man living on borrowed time? Back in the summer of 2019, I set out to watch every Kevin Smith film l...

Remember back on Memorial Day when I wrote a post about The Great Summer Writing Season? I said that in the 97 days between Memorial Day an...

I write in my books. There, I said it. Ever since I can remember, I read my school books with pens or pencils or highlighters to mark passag...

I really enjoy being surprised by stories and characters. I started watching the TV show Castle because of the premise and Nathan Fillion, ...

Last week , I mentioned a new way to consume a story, via a Kindle ebook and its corresponding audiobook. The book in question was Girl Most...

Have y’all tried this? Last month, veteran author Max Allan Collins offered a pair of books for $0.99 each, Girl Most Likely and Girl Can’t...

I experienced a momentous event last week: my son moved out of the house.  On Wednesday, my twenty-year-old son into his first apartment to ...

I finally picked up a copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear this week. Well, my own copy, a hard back no less. I’ve been reading through it v...

When did characters in stories become self-aware of all the story tropes they are in and comment on those tropes during the story? In short,...

Over here in America, PBS just dropped the eighth season of Endeavour, the prequel series to Inspector Morse and its spin-off, Lewis. My w...

Why do you consume a story? I use the word ‘consume’ because you could watch a movie or TV show, read a book, or listen to an audiobook or p...