Building Writing Motivation Through the Hard Times
The writing journey isn’t always easy. How do you build writing motivation during hard times? How do you follow your creative dreams when it’s easier to quit?
Plotting Your Growth as a Writer
It’s smart to look for productive methods to grow and improve your writing. Get inspired by what helped these published writers and enrich your writing skills.
Speed Bumps to Avoid in Your Story
You don’t want speed bumps in your story to slow down your readers. Today we discuss the types of story speed bumps that bring your reader to a full stop.
Finding Your Place as a Writer
Writing isn’t one-size-fits-all. For each of us, there is a genre that fits best with our interests and abilities. Today we are finding your place as a writer.
Finding Your Why as a Writer
Why are you a writer? Knowing your why as a writer can help you get writer’s block and rejection. Let’s talk about what motivates you to write.
Nitty-Gritty of Dialogue Format
Dialogue format is complicated. Quotation marks. Commas. To use said or not to use said, that’s just one question. Join us today as we set the record straight.
Writing a Book: Voice vs. Dialogue
Voice is a vital element of dialogue. Dialogue is essential to express a character’s voice. How do these intertwined writer tools work together? Let’s find out!
The Purpose of Dialogue in Writing a Book
Dialogue brings so much to a story’s character, pacing, and plot. You might even say it’s essential for writing a book. Let’s talk about why.
Writing a Book: What Happens After the Writing is Done?
After writing a book, there are still steps to take to ensure a polished finished project for submission. Here are four things to do after your book is written.
Writing a Book: Pen to Paper
After prewriting comes the part of writing a book that most people imagine: putting the words on paper. This is the time to let your imagination run wild.
Prewriting: Essential Writing Groundwork
The first step in writing is not writing. It begins in your head with the spark of an idea. What happens between the spark and writing the book is prewriting.
Breaking Down the Writing Process
Let’s take a broad overview of the writing process and the pieces of the puzzle that go into pre-writing, writing, and post-writing in this post from Jan Fields.
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Be a Professional Writer: Your Character Counts Too
3 tips for being a professional writer that editors want to work with in this post from Jan Fields. Take these suggestions to heart and go far in your career!
Looking Through Your Characters’ Eyes
Your challenge is to get your characters to reflect your style of writing, the genre, and the setting plus emerge as unique and interesting personalities.
Collecting Real Life Quirks for Character Creation
Real people can be the perfect inspiration for character creation. Which quirks can you use and which ones should you lose? Let’s find out!
Bringing a Cast of Characters to Life
Your cast of characters fills certain roles in the plot to bring forth an engaging story. Time to talk about your protagonist, antagonist, sidekicks, and more!
12 Writing Tips for Building Convincing Characters
Use any of these 12 writing tips and develop convincing characters readers will care about. No more two-dimensional characters in your stories!
Sneaky Writing Tip: Character-Building Characters
Characters populate our stories but what does it mean to write a character-building story? How do you help build character without preaching at your audience?
Choosing Your Writing Word of the Year-Institute for Writers
One way of thinking about what you most want out of the year is by choosing a writing word of the year. What’s a word that encapsulates your goals this year?
