5 (Not-So-Little) Additions to the Great Novel-Writing Checklist
There are 5 categories for the "little" things that need to be on your novel-writing checklist. Although primarily cosmetic, they are still crucial.
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.
6 Steps to Create a Fantastic Narrative Voice (What I Learned Writing Storming)
Avoiding "said" is one of the most common writing mistakes? Yep. Avoiding this hard-working speaker attribution can lead you into some major prose problems.
Most Common Writing Mistakes: Weak Character Voice
How to recognize and fix a weak character voice.
Top 25 Ways to Write an Awesome Book
What if we could simplify the process of how to write an awesome book to just twenty-five ingredients?
7 Ways to Decide Which Story Idea You Should Write Next
The seven factors to consider in deciding which story idea you should write next.
Have You Chosen the Wrong Tone for Your Story?
All by its bitty lonesome, tone has the ability to either destroy your story - or raise it even higher.
5 Elements of a Riveting First Line
Opening lines offer authors their first and best opportunity to make a statement about their stories.
4 Tricks for Picking the Perfect Word
How do we know which word is the "right" word?
The Best Writing Advice
Another (highly unscientific) survey to discover some of the best writing advice
10 Ways to Write Skinny Sentences
Learn to trim your sentences into lean, mean bundles of incisive power.
