Eldred Bird breaks down multiple techniques for bringing the characters alive on the page.

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Laura Drake shows how similes, metaphors, and eponyms can be great descriptive tools for writers—with examples!

Barbara Linn Probst shares fantastic tools to map out your story and see its patterns and relationships.

Lori Freeland demonstrates when and how to "show don't tell," with lots of great examples and tips!

Fae Rowen I've been writing for twenty-five years. I started when an English-teacher friend suggested I write down the story that I thought about every night before I fell asleep. As a math teacher, I had no intention of writing a book, but I'd finished my first one, a medieval kind-of-fantasy-for-sure romance in only nine […]