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Verbal irony is a wonderful rhetorical device you can use to sharpen your character’s tongues and refine their wit. In...

Just when you thought a story was done, sometimes there’s still room for an epilogue. Stories often end with a...

Are all endings inevitably set by their beginnings, or do things occur at random? This question is, in part, answered...

Personification is a literary device so commonplace that it shows up everywhere in our language. The dictionary definition of personification...

As writers and engineers of stories, imagery is our bread and butter. In some sense, all the literary devices at...

A finely developed sense of irony is a wonderful tool for a writer. In this article, I will discuss different...

I got an email this morning from one of my students who just received a pile of notes on her...

The first draft is about diving into the unknown, invoking the muse, and writing from our right brains. The next...

Redundancy is not only a sign of lazy writing; it can also pull us out of the story by interrupting...

Sometimes we’ve written characters that don’t belong in our story because their function is redundant. Conflict might arise that don’t...

Just because you might be a first-time novelist, it doesn’t mean you’re not the authority over your work. No agent,...