Make that protagonist proactive! Prevent your story from flatlining by using these five methods to keep your main character off the couch.

Janice Hardy, founder of Fiction University offers an easy template to help you evaluate your story for reader engagement.

Janice Hardy shares six ways to finish projects and achieve writing success without flogging yourself with unreasonable self-imposed deadlines.

by Janice Hardy I work with a lot of new writers, and a common frustration I see is getting tangled up in the details of the story and being unable to see the larger problem. These writers have a general sense of what they want their novels to be about, but they keep focusing on […]

Janice Hardy Readers may not judge a book by its cover, but they will judge it by its opening scene. An opening scene has but one job—to establish the story and convince readers to read the next scene. That’s a lot to ask of a single scene, but it’s not as difficult as it sounds. […]