If your plot is your story's skeleton and your character's are it's life blood, then the theme is the beating heart. Theme provides the...

The Setting Ten years is a long time to be working on a book series. One set of characters. One world. During those ten years I’ve moved...

My writing was dead. My words were dull and dry, my characters flat and lifeless, and my plot a steaming heap of contradictions and...

You’ve done it! You finally finished drafting and revising that behemoth of a novel and it’s on the road to publication and getting into...

Oh, hello there. Don’t mind me, the panicked queer author hiding in the corner of the Romance party, sweating nervously at the prospect...

So, you’ve got two characters who are perfect for each other. You know it, but they don’t know it yet, do they? Congratulations! You’re...

Have you written a novel? Wait, an ENTIRE novel? Congratulations! You should be extremely proud of your accomplishment. Now what? After a...

November is over, and for many writers, that means the end of National Novel Writing month. With so many of our community members coming...

I made this list as part of my revision process for my debut novel, Let it Reign. I hoped to write a book readers would struggle to put...

One of the hardest parts of being a writer is finding our voice. That unique quality to our writing that makes it distinctively ours....

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“It was a bright spring day when Calla Emery kneed the man her mother sent to woo her, deep in the crotch.” With this first sentence,...

Would you believe me if I told you that not four years ago, I sat down to write a four-book fantasy series with nothing written down,...

Deep in the drafting trenches whilst trying to write my first book, I realised three things; I had no idea how to effectively structure a...

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I write this article with one important caveat. You need to know the “rules” of writing first. If you’re a newbie writer, the best advice...

Tension is arguably the most essential aspect of any story worth writing and writing worth reading. Authentic tension connects us to the...

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Five years ago, I decided to write a book. So, I did. It was easy. Said no writer in the history of the world, ever. When I began writing...