Home / narrative narrative Blog chosen ones How to Be a Protagonist When You’re Not the Chosen One and the World is Unsaveable By Samit Basu June 7, 2022 Comment 6 Blog storytelling Why Stories Are Dangerous — And Why We Need Them Anyway By Jason Gots March 8, 2022 Comment 3 Blog storytelling Stephen King’s It Taught Me About the Shape of Stories By Leah Schnelbach September 15, 2021 Comment 5 Blog narrative Spoiler Alert! On the Modern Problem of Spoilerphobia By Sarah Kozloff October 15, 2020 Comment 69 Blog Fantasy The Flawed Fantasy of the Chosen One By Margaret Owen August 19, 2020 Comment 68 Books narrative At Dawn, Look to the East: The Riders of Rohan’s Timely Arrival and Other Tear-Inducing Moments in SFF By Samantha Edmonds December 26, 2019 Comment 17 Books narrative Getting to the Heart of SFF’s Most-Tear Inducing Moments: The ‘Riders of Rohan’ Phenomenon By Samantha Edmonds October 8, 2019 Comment 113 Blog Dirk Gently Dirk Gently, Sherlock, and the Power of Consequences By Leah Schnelbach October 12, 2017 Comment 7 Books Sleeps With Monsters Sleeps With Monsters: Why Can’t More Books Pander To Me? By Liz Bourke September 19, 2017 Comment 34 Featured Essays video games Five Video Games With Sudden But Inevitable Betrayals By Joe M. McDermott January 18, 2017 Comment 11 Books That Was Awesome Subverting Expectations: Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn By Steve Kamb January 22, 2016 Comment 7 Featured Essays Shakespeare Julius Caesar Dies, Wills the Modern Movie Blockbuster to the People By Chris Lough December 30, 2015 Comment 3 icon-chervon-left 1 2 3 icon-chervon-right