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Storytelling is in our blood. Since the dawn of man, human beings have told stories. We've sung around campfires. We've crafted poems, written epics, and we've even passed down knowledge using fiction. Man is a storyteller. Yet why do we write?

Creative writing, drawing, storytelling and memoirs - workshops are held in New Yord, Create, Florence, and Carmel.

How We Got Started Like most good stories, Dallas Food Nerd started around a table of wonderful food. On Valentine's weekend in 2011, two social mediaites (Elysa and Rory) were invited to go on a food tour of five fabulous Dallas dining spots, hosted by a major car brand and local restaurants. The couple spent the day restaurant hopping with several other food bloggers, indulging in chocolates and souffles. credentials on their virtual resumes, they felt like a food blog was definitely in order. What better way to share their love of food and drinks with others on social media? In that sugar coma filled afternoon, they purchased the Dallas Food Nerd website domain, created a logo and began promoting the new brand among their friends and the local food blogger community. Sharing Our Passion For Food With Others While Elysa and Rory founded the blog back in 2011, they quickly grew the group by adding a few friends and acquaintances who also shared a passion of food-related storytelling. You might even know someone like this yourself… those people whose cameras "eat first"! Our group of writers is now about 20 people, mostly living in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. (We'll share more on the expansion later.) As a community of people who share a love for food and storytelling, we review new restaurants and menus, test out kitchen gadgets, write product reviews. We tell our stories by writing blog posts, Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram posts/stories, and lately, Instagram Reels, too.

Read. When you finish a snippet of text, click 'read more'. You'll be given three paths that continue the story. If you like your options, keep reading. If you reach an end, or don't like the story's trajectory, Write a new snippet and take the story's direction into your own hands. Publish - and others may add on to your story. If the story gets ranked well and has enough offshoots it stays, if not, watch it wither and die.

New writers struggle with how to develop a plot. Here is a simple guide. By "simple", I mean these are the basic steps. Nothing stops you from repeating them or having multiple plots following parallel trajectories.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village near the forest. Whenever she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood. m

Some pre-research and reporting to find out if a story idea is worth pursuing.

This idea can sound intimidating, but it works. Creative writing allows writers to step away from their personal life, and create an entirely fictional universe in which they are in control and there is no longer a need to conform to anyone else's ideas or opinions.

Not every book can be a thriller or a heartbreaker. But yours can. It is a superb way to stand out from the crowd - to produce a book that stands head and shoulders above other books in your field. Keep them reading, pull at their emotions, and your book is more likely to make its point.