If you love feeling immersed in the lives and emotional dramas of fictional characters, then shifting focus from external to internal builds plot organically.

Don't freeze at the sight of your blank page. Lori Freeland shares tips on how to piece together the perfect scene like she learned to create a painting.

We can get so caught up writing witty banter, choreographing every move that we forget to write in a backdrop. Location will bring your book to life.

Sights, sounds, and smells often evoke powerful memories. Miffie Seideman shares accurate online resources for properly identifying and describing drugs accurately in your stories.

  by Laura Drake In the last Writers in the Storm ‘throwdown’ (if you missed it, it was character driven vs. plot driven writing.) I was more than willing to admit that both sides of the argument are valid – even necessary to a great story. But this time?  The other side of the coin […]