Janice Hardy of Fiction University shares 10 tips for avoiding writer's block. Look at the key elements of plot, figure out what's missing, and get the words flowing!

Eldred Bird explains the "What If Game" for writers. This post includes the rules of the game (there aren't any!) and describes tools that can help.

Paint a picture in the mind of your reader; they need to see what’s happening. A different way for you to accomplish that visualization in your novel? Storyboarding!

  You're working on your latest manuscript, or polishing the story idea you want to blaze into Word Glory during NaNoWriMo. This is your masterpiece. The story that will grab your reader and pull him into your world and through the story with you. It. Has. To. Be. Perfect. No pressure. We’re not here to give you […]

Lisa Cron I had a lot of great questions this month, but Laura Drake’s question goes directly to the very heart – the foundation -- of your novel. She asks: “I'm stuck on The Origin Scene. Partially, I think, because it feels like if I get it wrong, the rest of my book is screwed. Any […]