WRITING TIPS

Observation is the key to good writing. Whether you write realistic fiction or high fantasy or anything in between, grounding aspects of...

If you are an avid reader, you know how easy it is to fall down a rabbit hole over the significance of one sentence or chapter. The same...

Whether or not deep third deserves to be its own POV is a subject of controversy among writers. After all, we are always taught three...

After three years of writing, rewriting, and stressing, my debut novel The Prisons of Magic launched this Tuesday. The journey to get...

Writers tend to fall into two categories: underwriters and overwriters. No, there’s no category for the perfect writer because it is...

Stories are defined by their genres—often more so than their characters or their plot. Whether you want to publish your story or simply...

A week after the end of NaNoWriMo, you may have a 50,000-word novel lying around. What next? While revising and editing may seem...

What makes a good story? Yes, you need characters and plotlines that intrigue your readers. But, importantly, setting is also one of the...

Without a plot, a story doesn’t exist. But with only one plot, a good story rarely exists. That’s why subplots exist. This week’s post is...

Screenwriting—the art of writing screenplays for films or TV shows—can be really exciting. It’s a great way to exercise your description...

You finish your novel. Now what? While it can be tempting to send it to editors right away or even jump to literary agents, there’s an...

Happy Pride Month! In honor of pride month, this week’s post talks about the importance of diversity in literature and how to incorporate...

Stakes are the lifeblood of every story. If there’s nothing at stake for the characters, there’s nothing at stake for the readers. If...

Experimentation is the key to great writing, so it's important to sometimes step out of your comfort zone to give the reader more ways to...

A little laughter goes a long way when your characters and readers are stressing about an impending war. Almost every genre can do with a...

While the beginning of a story sets up the world, people, and themes, the end wraps it all together. It’s either a reward or a punishment...

It’s really easy to put down a book after reading a few pages, but it becomes increasingly more difficult to do so as you go on. Once...

When writing their first draft, some authors keep their future readers in mind at all times and others only write because they need to...

Why is it that the best plot twists always seem to make sense but you never could have predicted them? Foreshadowing is a literary device...

Almost every story can be traced back to some core plotline that can be found in other books of that type. Harry Potter is about the...