The 4 Tweaks to Writing Truly Original Stories and Characters
Find out why originality is less crucial than you might think--and why you should still use this process to help you consistently write original stories.
4 Methods to Invigorate Your Prose With Surprising Sentences
Consider four ways you can invigorate your prose into something special by injecting the element of surprise into every single sentence.
5 Ways You’re Preventing Readers From Suspending Disbelief
Five of the most common ways authors kill their readers' suspension of disbelief - and, by extension, their stories.
The Secret Ingredient of Original Stories
Sometimes the more we try to be original, the more hackneyed our stories end up sounding.
Why You Should Read the Type of Stories You Write
Aside from writing itself, reading is the single most important element in a healthy writing life.
5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters
Minor characters provide the color and conflict that fill our protagonists' worlds.
10 Ways to Write Skinny Sentences
Learn to trim your sentences into lean, mean bundles of incisive power.
Why Character Stereotypes Are a Good Thing
Stereotypes can be successfully applied in two ways: we can use them and we can play off them.
Making Cliches Work for You
Cliches need not be dreaded bogeymen who haunt our work, but rather exciting and multi-faceted challenges that we can make work for us in many ways.
Characters: Likability Is Overrated
Learn why readers connection with imperfection in characters, more than perfection.
