Great beginnings guru, Laura Drake, offers insight and examples into ways to make your manuscript opening strong.

Angela Ackerman, co-author of The Emotion Thesaurus, discusses the cause and effect of your characters' behavior.

Eldred Bird breaks down multiple techniques for bringing the characters alive on the page.

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Lori Freeland demonstrates when and how to "show don't tell," with lots of great examples and tips!

Fae Rowen I've been writing for twenty-five years. I started when an English-teacher friend suggested I write down the story that I thought about every night before I fell asleep. As a math teacher, I had no intention of writing a book, but I'd finished my first one, a medieval kind-of-fantasy-for-sure romance in only nine […]