Is Your Prose Too Complex?
How to Spot Problematic Complexity in Your Prose
Top 10 Sentence Slip-Ups
Creating correct sentences is a technical process that offers set guidelines for getting the structure right.
Motivation-Reaction Units: Cracking the Code of Good Writing
Dwight V. Swain famously cracked the code of efficient prose into what he called motivation-reaction units, or MRUs.
4 Tricks for Picking the Perfect Word
How do we know which word is the "right" word?
Is Your First-Person Narrator Overpowering Your Story?
Let's take a look at some of the common pitfalls of the first-person narrator and how to avoid them.
The Kung Fu Panda Guide to Writing Action Scenes
You need to understand the basics of this integral type of scene if you're going to blind readers from overexposure to your action awesomeness.
5 Ways to Pace Your Story
Pacing is like a dam. It allows the writer to control just how fast or how slow his plot flows through the riverbed of his story. Understanding how to operate that dam is one of th
