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4 Ways Specificity Drives Your Story Forward

Detail creates story movement by inviting the reader into your story’s experience. Sometimes. If you apply that detail indiscriminately, it’s equally possible that you’ll entangle your reader and d…

How to Create Compelling Hooks for Every Chapter

Every chapter opening should pull readers in and every ending should push them forward. Here’s a 13 point checklist to make that happen.

How Fear Shrinks Your Character’s World Over Time

Learn how to show how fear affects your characters, holding them back and making them too afraid to step beyond their comfort zone.

How to Optimize Your KDP Book Listing for Amazon’s New A10 Algorithm - Written Word Media A10 Algorithm: Optimize Your KDP Book Listing to Rank Better

Learn how the A10 algorithm affects your KDP book listing, metadata, reviews, and traffic so indie authors can improve visibility and sales.

Their Voices, Their Wounds: Pitfalls to Avoid When Writing About Trauma

Author Fartumo Kusow shares two very big pitfalls to avoid when writing about trauma and how she navigated around them.

Queerness and Visibility in Body Horror

The queer community is no stranger to horror. Life as we know it horrifies. Scarcely a minute goes by without gruesome news flashing across our close-held screens, casting stark light on the danger…

What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light

We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we'll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at.

9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971

A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long gander at a list of nine freedoms that women in the United States were not universally granted in 1971, the year Helen Reddy released the soon-to-be anthem, 'I Am Woman,' above.