Book Cover Design
Make your book stand out with professional Book Cover Design. Learn how to use color theory and intrigue to capture readers at first glance.
Plot Holes
Master story structure and learn how to fix logical gaps with our guide to plot holes—the "Swiss cheese" of writing that can break your story's magic.
Tips for Writing a Novel
Master these tips for writing a novel by embracing messy first drafts and creative warmups. Learn how to silence your inner critic and finish.
A Writer’s Guide to Amazon Author Central
Boost your book sales by mastering Amazon Author Central. Learn to curate your brand, use Kindle marketing tools, and connect with more readers.
An Editing Checklist for Writers
Refine your manuscript with this essential editing checklist. Learn how to edit a book by paring down prose and polishing your unique voice.
How to Plan a Novel
Learn how to plan a novel by balancing creative intuition with a structured 90-day schedule, from initial inquiry to finishing your first draft.
How to Publish a Book
Master the path to publication. Learn how to polish your manuscript, query literary agents, handle rejection, and weigh the pros of self-publishing.
How to Plot a Novel
Balance your character's wants and needs if you want to learn how to plot a novel by using a central dilemma to turn events into a fleshed out story.
Book Outline: Where Do I Start?
Transform your draft with a book outline. Learn 5 proven methods to map your character’s journey, master story structure, and beat the blank page today.
Beta Readers: Finding Trusted Insight for Your Work
Beta readers help writers feel safe to fall deeper into their work. Balance the proximity that your beta readers might have to you and your work and articulate the right framework to get what you and your work need most from them.
Satire: Turning Humor into Insight
Understand satire, a technique that allows you to smuggle truth into critiques of power by critical construction of context and story.
Types of Conflict in Literature
The types of conflict in literature serve to force protagonists to confront their deepest fear and reveal a story's soul through the resolution of dilemma.
A Guide to Pen Names
Create a powerful tool to protect your personhood and work with a pen name, but establish it intentionally and early in your career in order to use this device of authorship cleverly.
Follow the Dog: On Persistence and Self-Trust
Tess Callahan details her journey through authorship and publishing her manuscripts--the difficulty of not feeling enough as a writer and ultimately getting the break she owed herself.
How Long Does it Take to Write a Book?
"How long does it take to write a book" is a question of daily schedule. A solid outline and forward movement allows any writer to finish on time.
The Pantser Method: Writing Without an Outline
Learn how to hone your strengths as a "pantser." Discovery-based writers often succeed with creative freedom and spontaneity, but successful narratives still require an underlying structure of character transformation to avoid losing direction.
The 5 Core Stages of Freytag’s Pyramid
In this article, I explore story structure with Freytag’s Pyramid, who structures a story into five main components that allow stories to succeed.
Authoring – and Other Writerly Pursuits
Maida Korte explores 5 critical tenets to help writer's prove their authorship and create unabashedly in a piece on her background and work.
