Cause and Effect is the Key to Story
There's a simple test for determining the strength of your story. If your story unfolds as a series of events - this happens, then...
J.L. Torres on How Worldbuilding Helps Him Write for Multiple Audiences
During an interview with the DIY MFA podcast, J.L. Torres (The Accidental Native, The Family Terrorist and Other Stories), discusses how he writes for separate audiences...
Writing Rules are Meant to be Broken
This blog is a firm believer of the tenet that rules are made to be broken. This includes the alleged rules of writing. Name...
Narrative Promises Create Structure
The Writing Excuses podcast starts a new 8-episode series on promises and expectations. With their guest hosts - Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd - they...
Leave Your Adverbs Here
Adverbs have their advocates, but most writers use them sparingly, if at all. We don't go for hard and fast rules on this site,...
Chris d’Lacey: To be a Writer, You Have to Write
The Writers Write blog shares Chris d'Lacey's Top 10 writing tips. Here's a few:
To be a writer, you have to write. Often. Write...
Consider Essayists as Models for Connection
In a post on the Killzone blog, PJ Parrish says that fiction writers can learn lessons from great essayists about connecting with their readers. Essay...
Deliberate, Don’t Default
In their final episode of their series on worldbuilding, the Writing Excuses hosts discuss how to insert originality by deliberately avoiding defaults, cliches, and...
How Much is Too Much and When?
For fiction writers, successful communication is all about balance. We need to hone our instincts so that we know the right amount to put...
Use the Audience’s Imagination to Fill in Blanks Between Scenes
We don't know how they do it, but writing advice blogs seem to hit similar points at the same time. Not counting blog tours...
