Helping Writers Become Authors

How do you get from idea to publication? How do you capture your beautifully incomplete inspiration and create a story you can share with the world?

Engage readers' imaginations in filling in the rest of the story by not tying off all the loose ends.

If we're ever going to find happiness as writers, we have to understand what success means to each of us as individuals.

A quick look at all four personalities to help writers identify into which categories they prominently fall and how to make the most of them.

Sometimes, without even realizing it, writers can end up skipping the best parts and leaving readers growling their frustration.

Whether you're wanting to publish traditionally or independently, chances are these talented people will be able to help you achieve your goals.

Your story question must be presented in the beginning of the story in order for the ending to resonate.

Conflict, just for the sake of conflict, is not only just as boring as zero conflict, it's also much more difficult for readers to swallow whole.

Consider some of our most common writing excuses, when they're true, when they're not, and how to get past them.

The result of any of these purpose-sapping boredom causers will be treacle-slow scenes that fail to move the plot forward - and probably don't do much to advance character either.

If you can avoid these five illusion destroyers, you'll be well on your way to a happily suspended and blissfully disbelieving audience.

Depending on your intent in any given scene, you can apply unity and contrast to beef up your prose, pack muscle onto your descriptions, and add weight to your subtext.

Some stories are so complicated they require not just one, but two timelines to tell everything.

Tension is the threat of conflict. It's conflict's calmer - but no less potent - cousin.

Let's explore some of the benefits to both linear and non-linear writing.