What's the difference between conflict and tension. Why is that important? Where does tension come from. Sally Hamer answers your questions.

There are three aspects of your writing that will derail you if you allow other people to mess with them. What are they? Can you think of more?

When choosing a particular point of view an author must consider more than which character will tell the story. Author Lynette M. Burrows explains.

Guest blogger J. Scott Coatsworth gives us a "sleight of hand" trick for getting writers out of scenes where nothing exciting is happening with a couple of interesting examples.

If we make our characters' lives too easy the story is dull. Here's how to create tension using conflict and make our stories hard to set down.