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.

  Though we are a very cohesive group here at Writers in the Storm, we are split down the middle in writing style. Laura and Fae write their stories in a linear fashion while Julie and I quilt ours together scene by scene. The linear approach kills my stories, but story quilting lets me focus on my […]

by Fae Rowen Announcement: Kristen Lamb will be our guest on Friday with "Novel Diagnostics". At the beginning of the year, I usually cycle back to the questions "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?" I was thinking about Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon and remembered it's been awhile since […]