Mystery author, James Preston, gives examples of three common story pitfalls and shows you how to avoid them (and keep readers happy).

Sudha Balagopal offers great tips about the right (and wrong) way to inject foreign expressions into your English fiction.

Janice Hardy of Fiction University gives a playbook for creating unique character voices.

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.

Lori Freeland There are lots of different ways to start sketching in the empty page of a new scene. Dialogue. Setting. Action. Internal thought. But for me, the easiest way to get words on the page is to use dialogue—what I want my characters to say to each other—as the blueprint of my scene.   […]