A character's impact on the plot involves all their traits. Background, personality, flaws, and strengths influence the plot and move the story forward.

What strategies do you use to plan your books? Sandy Vaile offers essential things that can help you stay on track as you write.

Sarah (Sally) Hamer offers three questions to ask to help you to decide why or when, or whether it needs to happen at all.

Today, my military and intelligence veteran writing partner and I are showing ways characters can protect themselves in their homes against impending threats.

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.