Craft
Title Trouble? 6 Tips for Picking the Perfect Titl...
Posted by Brian Andrews | Mar 17, 2024
How to Craft an Immersive Setting
Posted by Our Special Guest | Mar 13, 2024
Choosing My Novel’s Point of View
Posted by Dana Isaacson | Mar 6, 2024
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three DecadesAfter Your First Draft: The Search for Meaning
by Our Special Guest | Mar 4, 2024 | Craft, Womens Fiction
Are you done with your novel’s first draft? New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry discusses next steps, or the addition and subtraction that follows as a writer transforms into a craftsperson.
Read MoreSTORY QUESTIONS: The Secret to Narrative Thrust
by Paula Munier | Feb 26, 2024 | Craft
There’s a secret to maintaining narrative thrust—and that secret is story questions. Agent and USA TODAY bestselling author Paula Munier shows you how to use story questions to keep the reader reading.
Read MoreWhat Makes It Funny?
by Our Special Guest | Feb 21, 2024 | Craft
What’s the key to writing humor in crime fiction? Depends on what you think is ‘funny,’ says award-winning crime fiction author Gabriel Valjan.
Read More5 Tips for Co-Authors
by Our Special Guest | Feb 14, 2024 | Craft
Writing with someone is a completely different beast than going it alone. It’s a vibrant, complex process with rewards and challenges. Here are 5 tips for those considering teaming up.
Read MoreHow to Polish Your Final Draft
by Our Special Guest | Jan 31, 2024 | Craft
Book editor extraordinaire Brenda Copeland offers tips for making every word count in your book’s final draft
Read MoreShould Mom Be Capitalized? & Other Uppercase-Lowercase Conundrums
by Dana Isaacson | Jan 29, 2024 | Craft
Are words capitalized because of rules, style, or emphasis? Editor Dana Isaacson takes you from lowercase to uppercase, and advises whether you should “go Down South in the spring.”
Read More8 Best Ever Writing Tips
by Paula Munier | Jan 22, 2024 | Craft
A round-up of the best writing advice from bestselling authors we know and love–from Anne Lamott to Elmore Leonard.
Read MoreThe Life Changing Magic of Researching Just Enough
by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jan 17, 2024 | Craft
Put away all those reference books! Bestselling author and producer Emily Schultz says: for fiction, she found the best research is stumbling on an image.
Read MoreHow to Make Setting Work for You
by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jan 15, 2024 | Craft
As writers, we often focus on plot and characters, but Academy Award nominee and best-selling author Iris Yamashita shows how she uses setting to play an important part of her stories.
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