How Cause and Effect Impact History and the Future
During an interview with the DIY MFA podcast, GG Kellner discusses:
How she created the web of complex character relationships and the framework for...
Do Your Story Problems Fit Their Container?
During an interview with the Creative Penn podcast, Jessie Kwak offers advice for turning an idea into a short story or a short into...
Spread ’em – How Tarot Can Help You Define Your Hero’s...
In a guest post on Jane Friedman's blog, Margaret McNellis says reading the Tarot can help you tell your story. "I created a 9-card spread...
Rich Descriptions Invite Symbolism and Motifs
In a post on the Killzone blog, James Scott Bell examines some well-known literary symbols and motifs and suggests you try them yourself. "If...
Tell Me About Your Mother
Dysfunctional families are common grist for fiction, but in an article for Writer's Digest, Juliet Blackwell says please don't make it all about the...
Level Up Your Cast with Secondary Character Arcs
By now, we all know that our protagonist needs a character arc - a challenge and a change between the beginning and the end...
Are You Hep to Regency Lingo?
In a post on the Messy Nessy blog, Freya Bainbridge digs up some UK slang from the Regency Era (1795-1827), the period when King...
Yes, You Should Write That Sex Scene
Many writers don't include sex scenes in their stories, because they feel their genre doesn't support them or to avoid alienating a specific part...
A Timely Refresher on Concise Writing
In a new post, Kristen Lamb offers good advice for ridding your work of unnecessary verbage, repetitive language, and writerly tics that annoy readers...
What are Miscellaneous Structures?
Concluding their series on non-traditional story structure, the Writing Excuses hosts and Peng Shepard talk about the alternatives they haven't already discussed, with the...
