What’s Your Character’s Skill
We all want our characters to stand out a little from the crowd, especially our protagonists. Our heroes should contrast with their supporting cast...
How Do “Social Emotions” Factor in Your Story?
Lit Hub shares an excerpt from Leonard Mlodinow's new book, Emotionial: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking. In the excerpt, Mlodinow suggests that certain emotional...
Worst Marketing Tool? Or Best?
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things shares this awesome and not at all ridiculous thing - a brown velvet hat decorated with rotten human teeth....
Want to Write Well? Read Well.
Most writers love to read and would admit that they become better writers the more they read. Nonetheless, many of us still have a...
In Books, No One Can Hear You Flush
When the audience heard a toilet flush on All in the Family, it was a seminal moment for television. In the before days, producers...
Whose Advice is Right?
We've shared lots of advice on hiring an editor, including when you know it's time and how to find the right one. In a...
Self-Doubt is Inevitable, Wallowing Isn’t
During an interview with the Creative Penn podcast, William Kenower offers his advice on how we can recognize self-doubt, write with confidence, and double...
We Have a Cacoethes to Fudgel
We love lists of obscure words and made-up words, including an obsession of popular Facebook share about new words for emotions we can't name....
China Brings Sun to Planet
A post on Live Science says that China has created a $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor capable of heating plasma to a temperature...
Causation Drives Character and Plot
In a guest post on Jane Friedman's blog, writer and book coach Harrison Demchick how to use cause and effect structure in character-driven fiction.
"Causation...
