Welcome to the 17th Annual Drunk Duck Awards where every Duck Detective from Gumshoe to Chief is invited. The inquisitive Niccea is this year’s Master of Ceremonies. Fans of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are in luck! This year’s theme is “Whodunit ...

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Do you like acting? Do you like being part of collabs or community projects? Do you like radio plays? If you answered yes to any of that the DD radio play is for you! Way ...

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Main characters with main character syndrome? What is main character syndrome? Well the way we're dealing with it here it's normally a snide criticism you level and someone who seems to think the world revolves ...

always someone breakinnn' into twooooo…

AN important part of a story is the good old “Break into Act 2”.

It's not the easiest story structure moment to recognize, but it's one of the early ones I thought about and tried to notice in movies I watched.

Many people ...

Photo: “The Wee Ones: A Serialized Horror Story, Part One”. The Wee Ones by TheDeeMan. (November 2024)

TheDeeMan writes:

“Hi,

I just wanted to drop you a note to let you and the DD fam know that I started a new horror “short reads” series on Amazon titled “The Wee ...

Characters want something - this is a basic building block of storytelling. Identifying what a main character wants is a big step in defining that character. Figure out how they go about trying to get it - that's the beginning of a story. Figure out what's stopping them from getting ...

Photo: “FYC: Calling In a Favor” by HawkandFloAdventures. (2024)

There is still time to get votes into the ballot box — THREE MORE WEEKS - - to be exact. If you still have the ability to vote, but have not clicked the ballot link posted last week, then here is a more in ...

A tried and true story trope is the “forced together”.

I think it was the director Sidney Lumet who said that he really enjoyed the tension that came from
this kind of situation. Taking two people who would never choose to be together are stuck in
a bad situation. It ...

Photo: “Design A”. 2024 Drunk Duck Award Trophy Contest Entry. (May 2024)

Community contributions for this year’s Drunk Duck Awards Trophy Contest have already been pouring in the forums.

Get your original trophy design in the running for this year’s contest for the community to vote by sending ...

Damaged Heroes


A well written, standard Protagonist will generally have some flaws, starting out as an underdog of some kind, with lessons to learn and improvements to make over the course of the story.

Granted, some heroes are, well, just heroes, who are pretty much who they need to be ...