Writing has a lot of rules – from the more inflexible rules of comprehension to the far more slippery and opinion driven “rules” of style. While a...
So, you’ve decided to put on the armor of imagination, have you? To wield the pen? To battle the white page and all its opposing, blank-faced...
Character development can be one of the most challenging aspects of writing fiction, especially for new and aspiring writers. Characters often...
A word is so much more than a label for its object or idea. An actual object is unbending but when it becomes a word the possibilities of...
I have always had an issue with commas – I think it first stemmed from my English teacher’s rule of thumb that you should “put a comma everywhere...
Stop. Ask yourself, is this really my best? Years ago when I was thirteen I decided to make donuts for the first time. I timed them, watched...
There are two moods in fiction. An overall mood, which could be described as tone, tying the piece together, and shifting moods to accommodate the...
When I first started writing, I had a dream – a vision, if you will, of the mystical land I had created and the fantastic creatures who inhabited...
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