Helpful Picture Book Tips and Tricks (Plus a Giveaway!)

Whether you’ve always wanted to create a picture book, are in the process of revising one, or your manuscript is out on submission, your 2026 picture book goals are within reach! Through hosting the popular PBParty contest and my PB Fairy Godmother…
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Helpful Picture Book Tips and Tricks (Plus a Giveaway!)

Here are tons of tips and tricks to make your picture book manuscripts dazzle...plus a giveaway for a free written critique & 1 hour Zoom!

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Make the Most of Your Manuscript’s Resting Time

If you’re participating in ProWriting Aid’s Novel November, Reedsy’s Novel Sprint, NaNo 2.0 (not the original NaNo) or another writing challenge this November, you’ll soon be finished drafting. And if you’re like most writers, you’ll immediately…
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Make the Most of Your Manuscript's Resting Time

When your first draft is finished, set it aside. Maximize your time with these activities that will strengthen your creativity and toolkit.

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Win Editorial Feedback on Your First 10 Pages

Want to win editorial feedback and take your story opening from good to great? Well, my writerly friend, you’re in luck! It’s time for our monthly Phenomenal First Pages contest. In this draw, you can win… Editorial feedback on your first 10 pages Entering…
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Win Editorial Feedback on Your First 10 Pages

Enter to win editorial feedback on the first 10 pages of your manuscript from guest editor Stuart Wakefield. Good luck. :)

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Writing 101: How to Fix an Infodump

The latest post in our Writing 101 series is all about the dreaded infodump—when the author drops a landslide of information on the reader and the pace (and reader interest) grinds to a halt. These big blocks of text often show up in early chapters when a writer wants to be sure they’ve explained…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/08/writing-101-how-to-fix-an-infodump/

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Writing 101: How to Fix an Infodump

Learn why infodumps are a problem, how to identify them in your writing, and how to fix them without sacrificing pace or reader interest.

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Writing 101: Avoiding Purple Prose

Purple prose is one of those writing problems that’s easy to see in someone else’s work but hard to spot in our own. Simply put, this writing is overly elaborate or self-indulgent. It’s wordy, heavy on description, and often prioritizes the sound of the words over clarity and pacing. The result?
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/07/writing-101-avoiding-purple-prose/

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Writing 101: Avoiding Purple Prose

Learn to recognize purple prose, how it weakens your writing, and ways to revise it for stronger clarity, pacing, and emotional impact.

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Help! My Romance Draft Is a Mess (Now What?)

Author Accelerator Certified book coach Stuart Wakefield shares what to do if your romance draft is a mess. You finished your draft. Maybe you poured yourself a glass of something bubbly. Maybe you took a nap. Maybe you panicked. That’s all perfectly normal. (I buy myself a Ken doll…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/my-romance-draft-is-a-mess/

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Help! My Romance Draft Is a Mess (Now What?)

Revision doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. It can be one of the most creative and clarifying stages of the process.

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Writing 101: Semi-Colons & Other Tricky Punctuation Marks

Punctuation can be surprisingly difficult, especially when it comes to lesser-used marks like semi-colons, dashes, and colons. When these marks are used incorrectly, readers are either distracted or confused. Because this isn’t the experience we want for our readers,…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/writing-101-semi-colons-other-tricky-punctuation-marks/

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Writing 101: Semi-Colons & Other Tricky Punctuation Marks

Learn the purposes of (and differences between) semi-colons, dashes, and colons so you can use them correctly in your fiction writing.

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Communication is the Key to Critique Partner Success

Author Accelerator Certified Coach Julie Artz shares great ways to get the most out of critiques. Here on Writers Helping Writers, you’ll find a lot of folks extolling the virtues of getting feedback on your writing through either a critique partner or…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/05/the-key-to-critique-partner-success/

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Communication is the Key to Critique Partner Success

All relationships require communication. And clear communication is even more important when we’re talking about our precious story babies.

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Writing Tips from a Neurodivergent Brain

Last Fall, when I wrote about writing a novel “scene by scene,” I received a ton of interesting feedback. Most of it was a variation on these three questions: I’ll give you my answer in a nutshell. I don’t write out of order to be different or creative. I…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/05/writing-tips-from-a-neurodivergent-brain/

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Writing Tips from a Neurodivergent Brain

There are times when going the “scene-writing route” is beneficial. Who would I recommend this non-linear method to?

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101: Dialogue Mechanics

Strong dialogue isn’t just about the words being said—it’s also about how those words are presented on the page. If you’re newer to writing, there’s a lot to learn about storytelling—from big-picture techniques like show-don’t-tell to the more foundational aspects surrounding punctuation and capitalization. The technical part of writing isn’t very…
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2025/03/101-dialogue-mechanics/

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101: Dialogue Mechanics

Struggling with dialogue mechanics? Learn the biggest mistakes writers make & how to fix them, from punctuation to paragraphing and thoughts.

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