“For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.” – Jhumpa Lahiri“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen“It…
Write a little less. Don’t lower your standards but lower your output so you can spend time meeting with your friends or being with your family. After all, you can’t be a good writer if you fi…
One temptation to avoid when creating characters is to use an author surrogate. An author surrogate is a character who the writer models after himself, such as Jubal Harshaw is …
9 Tips for Choosing and Using the Right Point of View
• Most popular point of view types in storiesAmong the most important decisions a fiction writer can make is what point of view to use in a story. Point of view determines what aspects of a st…
Novice writers sometimes grow bored with using the word said over and over so decide to add dialogue tags. These are words such as exclaimed and asked that let re…
“For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.” – Jhumpa Lahiri“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen“It…
Life can be difficult, and all too often during those times we feel that there’s no way out or that no one is there for us. In the face of such troubles, we can find our energy waning, our desire t…
• An outline is the gas that my creativity needs to drive down the writing road.• Why you can’t get your outline into words• Outline your scene when stuck on what to write
When writing from a character’s point of view, authors should avoid the perception fallacy. This clunky kind of storytelling assumes that if a tale is being told from a specific character’s po…