Leave Room for Your Readers to Help Write Your Story
One aspect of story that writers often fail to appreciate is the role of the reader in their work. While you don't want to...
Be Careful of Using Dreams in Place of Meaning
It's common writerly wisdom not to use dreams in your stories, for good reason. Dream sequences are corny, time-consuming, and rarely convey information that...
Seven Steps to a Thorough Draft Edit
A post on Writer's Digest assembles 7 previous articles on how to prepare for editing your novel. The topics include:
Creating a post-first-draft...
Every Tale is a Mystery
A sense of mystery is at the heart of every story, regardless of genre. At the outset, you don't know where the story is...
Advice for Digging Author Intrusions Out of Deep POV
In a post on Writers in the Storm, Lisa Hall-Wilson offers advice for writing in deep third-person point of view. "Deep POV is one...
Maria Tatar on the Subversive Power of Gossip
In an excerpt from her book The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar examines the cultural power of gossip. "Chatter, chitchat, gossip, idle talk,...
Exploring the Exacting Details of Graham Greene
In a post on CrimeReads, writer Craig Nova examines Graham Greene's Brighton Rock to share some of its important writing lessons, starting with his ability...
Jazz and Shakespeare Can Help You Write More Melodically
One of the writer's biggest challenges is creating prose that both carries the story and takes on a life of its own. We've read many...
Attack Your Writing When It Least Expects It
A post on the Writers Write blog shares writing advice from renowned SF forefather H.G. Wells. We love #1: "If you are in difficulties...
10 Great Writing Elements in War and Peace
Tolstoy's War and Peace is one of the great classics of literature...that a lot of writers have never read. (Ed. note: Me too.). But in...
