The New Normal that the pandemic has cause doesn't have to cripple your creativity. Inspiration can still be found, it's the focus that's changed.

Ellen Buikema offers seven "rules of the YA road" and examples of YA fiction in nine different genres. Most important of all: be sure your characters achieve maximum growth.

by Julie Glover When my husband read the first draft of the first novel I ever wrote, he asked about my protagonist, “Is this you?” That’s hardly the only time that question has come up. How much of our real lives and personalities go into the characters and world we writers create? Our readers, including […]

Janice Hardy shares six ways to finish projects and achieve writing success without flogging yourself with unreasonable self-imposed deadlines.

Tasha Seegmiller offers four straightforward questions to help you get to your Writer's Authentic Self. What held you back in 2020, and how can things be better in 202