Writing coach Margie Lawson shows how fresh writing can heighten and deepen your story's moments of silence.

Julie Glover give 5 tips for writing great dialogue, using Gilmore Girls scenes to highlight these principles you can put into practice in your novel.

Writer and teacher, Lori Freeland talks about many tried and true writing rules, showing your how and when to break them (and still keep the reader happy).

Piper Bayard breaks down what you need to know about the backstory so you can convey the core information about your characters and world to your reader.

By Margie Lawson I’ve read the same wording about tears in too many books.  Tears stream and streak, glint and glisten, flee and flow, prickle and trickle.  They slip, slide, run, roll, seemingly unstoppable. Tears blur vision, soak hair, get wiped, get blinked.  But some tears are unshed, unspent, unspilled, or unspecified. Sobs can choke and […]