Should Stories Be Soapboxes?
As an author, your most powerful gift is your unique and integral view of the world.
Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)
As an author, your most powerful gift is your unique and integral view of the world.
The truth is I really have no idea what I’m doing. In fact, no author does.
The secret to memorable characters isn’t so much creating a strong character as it is creating a strong character arc.
How do create an inciting event that will fuel your plot and drive your characters forward?
Writing longhand is an invaluable technique my writing would suffer without.
Fiction is about the specifics.
A tour of a writing space.
The only way to be a better writer is to be a better person.
How many times have you come up with a brilliant idea – a story so dazzling, a character so real, a snippet of dialogue so scintillating that it knocks you breathless – only to have it fail to live up to your vision when you start putting it on paper?