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Coming of age is never easy. You might have been the popular kid in school, armed with academic excellence, physical...

You’ve created a character. You’ve crafted their backstory, motivation, and physical features, but maybe they still feel wooden to you....

Before a story begins, you can include an epigraph to signal your protagonist’s dilemma, the tone, and even foreshadow the...

The desire to write is, at its core, the desire to evolve. To dig deeper into something you’ve experienced in...

In the modern world where the town square is a digital place and the zeitgeist is a worldwide phenomenon, we...

Literary devices are the various techniques writers employ to create stylistic effects, convey deeper meaning, evoke emotion, and enhance the...

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,...