Advice for Helping Your Characters Speak Across Time
In an article for Writer's Digest, Stephanie Marie Thornton offers advice for managing multiple timelines in your novel. In her novel Her Lost Words,...
Core Conflict Drives Tension
In their latest episode on dramatic tension, the Writing Excuses hosts examine conflict. There are plenty of ways to present conflict, but you have...
Tips for How to Use Your Backstory
In a new post, Janice Hardy offers advice for using backstory without dragging down your story. "Along with adverbs and telling, I think backstory...
Fiction and Memoir Share These Traits
In a guest post on Jane Friedman's blog, Susanne Dunlap says memoirists can learn a lot from historical fiction. "Many of the decisions historical...
The Social Event of the Year…or Your Novel
In a post on Writer Unboxed, John Kelley suggests adding major social occasions - such as weddings and funerals - to your stories to create...
Which POV is the Right POV for Your Story?
In a guest post on Jane Friedman's blog, Tiffany Yates Martin offers advice on picking the right point of view for your story. "Choosing...
Read This Before Killing Off a Character
Game of Thrones taught its audience to never get too attached to a lead character, but also showed writers that killing beloved characters won't...
Blending Spec Fic and Neo-Noir
In an interview with DIY MFA, Jinwoo Chong addresses themes of loss and disconnection and how they relate to his book Flux. They also discuss...
Four Keys to Existentialist Writing
A post on Industrial Scripts examines existentialism and how to write an existentialist novel or film script. This philosophical approach isn't easy to define,...
How to Avoid TMI
You want your readers to understand your characters, but you don't want your novel to read like a therapy session. In a post on...
