Did you read last week’s blog post on beginning your story in the middle of the action? In that post, we talked about not wanting to bore our...

Have you ever been told to “stick with a book and it’ll get better?” Sometimes, we discover that chapter one is a little slow, but once the story...

As writers, we spend months stuck in our literary worlds- living, breathing, and dreaming our characters’ adventures.  You’ve probably heard more...

Plot structure, genre features and tropes are all storytelling techniques that we expect to reread time and time again. Often, it’s quite enjoyable....

Writing is hard! Getting back into creative writing after a long hiatus is grueling!  I went over a year without working on any of my projects and...