by Sarah Hamer

As a writing instructor, I often get asked about how to deal with the terrifying writers’ block. It’s usually from someone who had a great idea at the beginning of their story – swashbuckling heroes and heroines who have to rescue someone else from a dragon or fall in love or save the world.… Read the post

No matter how many days or months or years it took you to get to the current draft of your story, revision is almost always in the cards. No matter how much some authors insist they never revise, my guess is that they do.… Read the post

by James R. Preston

Let’s talk about quantum mechanics, shall we? What, you say you’d rather have a root canal? Ok, how about the wave-particle duality?

Stick around. It’s worth the trip. 

Light is a wave, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum. … Read the post

by Lynette M. Burrows

Relationships are a large part of what your readers relate to because we can’t escape them. We all have relationships with other people. Whether they are friends, acquaintances, enemies, or lovers, your characters’ relationships can break a reader’s suspension of disbelief or indelibly mark your reader’s heart.… Read the post

by Lynette M. Burrows

To borrow and slightly twist Samwise Gamgee’s words*, the great stories, the ones that really matter, are stories about people, about their relationships. Relationships are a large part of what your readers relate to because we can’t escape them.… Read the post