Advice for Using Close POV Across Multiple Narrators
In an interview with DIY MFA, Iris Yamashita talks about how her experience as a screenwriter helped her create tension in a closed setting....
Six Tips for Improving Your Contest Submission
In this article on Writer's Digest, contest judge Audrey Wick highlights six tips to help writers improve their craft. The tips focus on improving...
Cause and Effect: Pixar Style
In a post on DIY MFA, Stephanie Dethlefs says that Pixar movies offer a master class in cause and effect plotting. "There is one familiar...
The Harder the Choices, the Stronger Your Story
In a post on Writers Helping Writers, Angela Ackerman says strong stories require you to force your characters to make hard choices. "When we...
How to Weave Backstory Without Driving Your Readers Away
In a guest post on Jane Friedman's blog, Tiffany Yates Martin offers advice for skillfully weaving character backstory into your novel. "Backstory brings characters...
A Little Drama Helps the Comedy Land
In an article for ScreenCraft, Paula Finn explores the importance of incorporating drama into comedy writing. Finn argues that while comedy is meant to...
Ground Your Reader in Your Story with Character
In a post on Writers in the Storm, Lynette Burrows offers advice for using description and sensory language to ground your characters - and...
Improv Your Way to a First Draft
In a post on Lit Reactor, Peter Derk shares his experience creating a hip-hop horror opera mashup for his podcast called Phantom of the Hip...
Where Did You Get that Unsettling Idea?
During an interview with the DIY MFA podcast, Amy Christine Parker talks about coming up with unsettling ideas and her book, Flight 171. During...
Tips for Starting Your First Manuscript
A post on Industrial Scripts identifies the most important tips you need to get started on your story. While some of their tips focusing...
