7 Ways to Create an Empathetic Antagonist
Today’s guest post is by Sarah Tinsley. “Complexity is an indispensable ingredient of life, and so it ought to be…
How to Create Nuanced Characters
Today’s guest post is by Nina Schuyler. In ZZ Packer’s short story, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” Dina is an incoming black…
10 Ways to Enhance Your Fiction Writing through Journaling
Today’s guest post is by Lisa Tener. As a writer, you’ve probably kept a journal at some point. Maybe you…
3 Ways to Make Your Novel’s First Page Cinematic
Today’s post is a reprint from some years back—important technique for anyone writing fiction! Readers will often stop reading before…
6 Tips to Make Your Scenes Visually Dynamic
Today’s post is a reprint from 2016. Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The…
6 Factors to Becoming Super Productive
If you’re like so many people these days, you’re fatigued and often unmotivated. Covid has wreaked damage not only to…
Crafting Great Characters Starts and Ends with Motivation
This material ran on my blog four years ago, but it’s worth sharing again! Most fiction writers know that character…
7 Important Sensory Elements That Writers Ignore
Fiction and nonfiction writers alike need to immerse their readers into the story they are telling, and the best and…
2 Key Factors in Successfully Outlining Stories
Today’s guest post is by Andrea Turrentine. If you intend to write a novel, I can tell you most publishers…