Continuing with Charting Your Course, Gale Leach takes us on an online self-publishing journey, from working with the final manuscript to preparing for upload.

Every word in your manuscript should earn its place on the page. Janice Hardy shows us how to edit to make a good story great.

Every chapter opening should pull readers in and every ending should push them forward. Here’s a 13 point checklist to make that happen.

What stops you from writing? How do you open the door on your creativity? Are you your own worst enemy? Ossandra has great ideas on how to work through it all.

Well-written dialogue tags help our understanding of emotion and tone, not ruining the flow. Read on to learn effective uses of tags in dialogue.