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 […]

Writing coach and editor Margie Lawson shows with lots of examples how to write compelling cadence for your readers.

by Lisa Hall-Wilson Life is hard and as writers, we aren’t doing our jobs unless our characters struggle. Am I right? Good fiction isn’t borne out in the comfortable and easy living we might dream about, but in the tension and conflict between characters and/or their own desires. Giving a character a backstory that includes trauma […]