Backstory Tips and Tricks
You’ve spent hours, maybe months, developing a rich background for each of your characters and the world they inhabit. As…
5 Ways to Strengthen Weak Writing
Every writer has to work on strengthening the construction of their sentences and paragraphs. No one’s writing is perfect, but…
Starting Your Scenes with a Bang!
Openings are a science unto themselves, be they openings for an entire book, for a chapter, or for a scene….
7 Tips to Avoid Overwriting
Repetition. Redundancy. Useless words. All fiction writers fall into the trap of overwriting. We’re lured by the desire to be…
The 2 Elements You Need to Catch Readers in Your Net
Our goal as writers is to get readers to go on an emotional journey. Readers read to care, to feel,…
How to Use Setting to Reveal Character
All of us are impacted by setting. Every place we’ve been has made an imprint on us in some way,…
A Deep Look at Deep Editing
What makes the difference between a good novel and a great one? Simple: the editing. Seasoned fiction writers know that…
Common POV Violations and How to Catch Them
Nailing proper use of POV (point of view) is a challenge for many fiction writers. It seems easy, right? Whoever…
10 Self-Editing Tips for Fiction Writers
Editing’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it. The best person, though, to edit a manuscript or article…