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Here are a five important questions you, as a writer of fiction, can ask yourself to help you in making story structure your own.

There’s nothing incorrect in using confrontation to create conflict in fiction. But to understand conflict as only confrontation is too narrow a definition.

Learn how to increase the health and effectiveness of the writer’s inner critic while diminishing toxic effects.

Here are this writer’s New Year reflections, focusing on six “gifts” I gave myself and why I believe they were profoundly life-changing.