Ep. 456: 10 Advantages of Writing a Single-POV Story
Multiple-POV story versus single-POV story? Which is the right choice for you? Knowing which approach to choose is not difficult once you know how to choose.
Ep. 444: 3 Tips for Improving Show, Don’t Tell
The better you get at refining show, don't tell, the better your writing. Use these tips to gut-check your progress in clearing clutter from your story.
How to Spot and Avoid Self-Indulgent Writing
If you can spot, objectively analyze, and eliminate these seven kinds of self-indulgent writing from your story, you will have taken a huge step toward streamlining your book into
Tips for How to Choose the Right Sentences
Learn from these real-time examples how to choose the right sentences for your story, in a way that will make you a better writer with every book you write.
Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 63: Purple Prose
Learn what purple prose is, how to recognize when you're creating it, and how to write genuinely excellent prose in its place.
Writing Voice: 6 Things You Need to Know to Improve It
Here are six important principles of the writing voice, including solid ideas for giving readers a powerfully authentic experience of your stories.
3 Ways to Make Your Writing More Visual
Only a handful of things raise a novel from mediocrity into something truly memorable. Learning how to make your writing more visual is one of them.
Learn How to Pace Your Story (and Mind-Control Your Readers) in Just 8 Steps
Want readers to react to your story in just the right way? Learn how to pace your story, using these eight important pacing tricks to get you started.
Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 54: Story Events That Don’t Move the Plot
Once you understand what to look for, you can find and fix even the most extraneous of story events before they derail your book's narrative.
The Only 5 Ingredients You Need for Story Subtext
Learn how to create story subtext in everything you write using five simple but crucial principles.
Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 53: No Contractions in Dialogue
Find out why contractions in dialogue need to find a place in your writing---along with a few exceptions, in which it is actually best to avoid them.
Do You Have a Writing Superpower? (And Why You Shouldn’t)
Sometimes having a writing superpower means having a writing super-weakness too. But that doesn't have to be you. Learn how to be good at ALL of writing.
