How does helping others help us reach our own writing goals? Eldred Bird looks at some of the benefits we reap by helping other authors.

Want to know why readers put down your books? Lynette M. Burrows discusses six common character problems that make readers put books down and how to fix them.

Janice Hardy shows writers how "Showing" is a moving target that varies by which point of view you use, the narrative distance, and even the genre.

Dives into characters’ goals, motivations, wants, needs, and objects of desires. Look at sympathy and empathy and why they matter in storytelling.

Without a solid foundation upon which to build a plot, a story is liable to fall apart.
Use the through-line and other ideas to take an idea to story concept.