There are four key elements we’re going to focus on. Characters. Conflict. Execution. Continuity. Those elements are linked together and depend on each other to get your story
Holiday parties can be a mixed bag, especially for writers. Yet, tis the season. You can reference a previous post called Crafting Your Writer Lie…I mean, Life for
During in-person sales or author signing events, you can encounter an awkward situation. However, I think it’s something that every author should keep in mind in case they ever
During my Crafting Fiction editing seminar last month, one of the writers who attended asked me this question during the Q&A session: What makes a story fail? It
In fiction, weaknesses are things to exploit. A main character might look for a villain’s weakness so he can defeat him, and vice versa. The very idea is
Planner and Pantser were terms introduced to me while participating in NaNoWriMo. They are two approaches to first draft story writing. Why Planner and Pantser? Planners are writers who
Music is one of those things that can be a great tool for your writing time. Before Spotify there was mix-tapes. Before Pandora there was the radio. However
