How fast should a novel be written?

Let’s take a look at the top twenty-five ways we can blow our books right into our readers’ burn barrels.

Character reaction can be difficult to portray without falling into one of two pitfalls: non-reaction or over-reaction.

One need just isn’t going to be strong enough to get a character all the way through a book.

Nothing affects our writing more than the routine (or lack of one) with which we implement our writing into our day.

If we don’t stave the vocies of our critics, we’re likely to start writing for them, rather than out of the deep and honest well of ourselves.

Story structure is a subject that inspires endless questions.

As you write your closing lines, consider all the words that have come before and cap them off with an intellectual and emotional home run of a resolution!

The point is to bring the story and its primary conflict to its expected moment of irreversible resolution in a way that fulfills our every promise to our readers.