Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: Read the last line of the b…
What’s the best way to write your book: writing it out by hand on paper or typing on a computer?Interestingly, this is a hotly debated topic among writers. A number of discussion boards list i…
Good stories center on the clashing of characters’ goals and motivations. Sometimes a character’s goals and motivations arise from some past event that can’t be shaken from one’s mind. Here ar…
Virtually infinite ways exist to show a character’s personality, but all should follow one simple, guiding principle: It must reveal and be grounded in the character’s motivations, that is, wh…
Quick Tip: Don’t smother writing with your red pen
Sometimes writers sabotage their own stories by ensuring every sentence is grammatically correct, as if they were turning it in to their middle school English teacher. Read through many of the…
Two sides of the same structure. Both necessary. Both pulling. The friction between them the only thing keeping thirty thousand lives in the air. The city does not resolve its own contradictions. It uses them. #TheParasiteWars#SFF#AmWriting
Just because a blog entry has been published doesn’t mean that it never can be used again. Instead, you want to repurpose your writing, meaning reformat and reuse it across multiple books as well a…
“The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it.” – William Saroyan“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.” – Octavia E. Butler“The only end o…