Writing is hard but it shouldn’t always be hard. Yeah, you're told a writer suffers and the first draft is crappy. Turn those negatives into positives.

To engage readers' feelings, writers can threaten the protagonist readers have come to know and love. This is where emotion amplifiers can be useful.

Margie Lawson shares from her deep editing tips.
Writing one book a year?
You can use more of her deep editing techniques!

So much advice out there describes conflict as “the obstacle preventing the protagonist from achieving the goal.” This is technically true, but also false.

Strengths are a character's positive qualities–not just things they’re good at. Ellen shares 24 cross-cultural strengths to make your characters relatable.