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How I Write Best—and How You Can Too

Posted by Our Special Guest | Jan 22, 2020 | Craft

Jumpstart the new year with a new writing routine. Leadership coach and author Susanne Biro tells you how to get started.

Don’t Kill the Cat! And Other Secrets to Writing about Animals

Posted by Our Special Guest | Jan 8, 2020 | Craft

Is there an animal in your book? Writing animals is not like writing humans. You don’t have to be a behaviorist, but get the basic character right, or risk hisses and snarls.

Kick Off the New Year by Finding Your Voice!

Posted by Our Special Guest | Jan 1, 2020 | Craft

Most modern fiction is written in first person or limited third-person point of view. For these storytelling styles to work, you must make your readers feel that they are living inside the point-of-view character’s head.

Edith Wharton’s 5 Rules for Novelists

Posted by Our Special Guest | Dec 18, 2019 | Craft

Using her own set of rules, bestselling author Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence 100 years ago. Author Arielle Zibrak offers up five of these rules, demonstating Wharton’s literary wisdom and perhaps in part explaining why she continues to be widely read today.

Five Writing Crimes and How to Get Away With Them

Posted by Our Special Guest | Dec 4, 2019 | Craft, Thriller

Rules. Rules are meant to be broken. Writers, however, need to know them first. Break them well, though, and there’s respect. Let’s visit some rules and learn ways to bend them.