Barbara Linn Probst shares her favorite four writing lessons, learned from stellar teachers like Donald Maass, Kathryn Craft and others. These address character, plot, and the quality of your writing.

Backstory. You can’t write with it. You can’t write without it. So how do you sidestep the information dump and slip subtly into the middle ground? Lori Freeland offers eight ways to do it right.

Like people, locations can have certain traits that bring out their personalities and influence the way our characters interact with them. Here are 5 character traits of locations to get you started!

Pick up a book. In your hand you hold the story that became, not the story as it began. These ten editing tips can help craft your next tale.

Melinda VanLone shares how to do a cross-genre book cover and how vital it is for selling your novel. A good cover is a contract with the reader that your story fits in the genre they’re looking for.