A writer’s job is not to photocopy reality but to transform it into a story that feels true. A writing veteran offers tips for using real life in our fiction.

Jenn Windrow talks about how your hero's flaws may be the key to winning readers' hearts. Click in for more

Point of View is not just a choice -- it's a promise to the reader that they will experience the story through clarity about whose story it truly is.

How a coffee order, a stubborn imagination, and one very persistent partnership with AI built the spine of my entire fantasy world.

It's not about how much emotion is in a scene, it's about how it changes across the scene itself. Do your characters change? Susan can help you with them.