One of the most important decisions you’ll make as a storyteller is the names if your characters. If the names don’t ring right with readers, it can wear on them despite that the rest of your story…
• Should you ever co-write your book? Sometimes you come up with a great story idea with another person. Or your discussions and critiques of one another’s works are inspiring. So you decide to co-…
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” – Stephen King“Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse c…
“There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there ar…
• When should you start a new novel chapter?• How many words is a novella?• Avoid using real product names in novels• Strive for originality when penning fiction• Hey author, don’t forget your read…
Among the biggest mistakes that writers stuck in a rut make is thinking that their writing sessions are going nowhere. Perhaps the scene you wrote doesn’t seem to advance the story, perhaps th…
The importance of an editor can’t be understated for self-publishing authors. A human editor can use years of experience and expertise to point out parts of a text that won’t make sense to reader, …