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…
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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…
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…
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…
12 Weeks to Writing Your 10 Key Scenes
Anyone who tells you that writing a novel is easy doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Plain and simple. Great…
The Secret Formula to Writing the Commercially Successful Novel
I’ve been writing novels for more than three decades, and while I have learned a lot about how unpredictable the…
The 6 Necessary Elements in Your Novel’s Opening Chapters
Writing a novel is a massive undertaking. It doesn’t matter if you’ve written one or thirty. And even after studying…
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