What Fights Can Do For Your Story
In an article for Writer's Digest, Carla Hoch discusses what fight scenes can do for your story, including providing options you might not have...
Advice for Creating Your Own Graphic Novel
As a kid who constantly caught flak for reading comic books, it's been heartening to watch the graphic novel mature and take its place...
Use Place to Pull Your Reader In
In a new article for Writer Unboxed, Beth Havey continues her examination of place in fiction. "Think of place as the establishing shot in...
Be Yourself to Find Your Voice
In a post on Writer's Digest, Robert Lee Brewer says there's only one way to discover your writing voice: Write.
"There is only one true way...
Audiences Buy Concepts, but Embrace Characters
In a post on Killzone, Garry Rodgers describes one of his former partners from his time as a police detective and a list of...
What do Genre and Media Promise to the Reader?
In this week's podcast, the Writing Excuses hosts continue talking about reader expectations, saying that your genre and medium make promises you should keep....
Advice for Starting in the Middle of the Action
"The chronological beginning of a story is not always the best place to start," writes Karen Debonis in a post on Writers in the...
You’ve Got a Friend in Inanimate Objects
Movies like Pinocchio, Ted, Night at the Museum, and the Toy Story series show us the enduring attraction of using inanimate objects as living...
What Does it Take to Begin Your Novel?
We have trouble writing one beginning to our stories and novels. In a post on Writer Unboxed, Greer Macallister says every story actually has...
Writing a la Mode
While many of us spend our writing time in a t-shirt and yesterday's jeans, sometimes our characters might need a bit more elan. In...
