How Do You Write?
By that I mean, if you’re an outliner and plan out your novel in an organized manner, how involved is …
Category Archives: Writing Tips
What’s Your A-Z Challenge?
The April A-Z Blogging Challenge is just around the corner! I participated in this last year and really enjoyed it. …
Non-fiction Inspiration?
We’re all familiar with books that take facts, or elements thereof, and spin them into fictional tales – think Da …
Why the Reader Is Your Co-Writer
Read this fantastic post from K.M. Weiland: Why the Reader Is Your Co-Writer.
The War on Adverbs
I don’t understand the abhorrence writers today have for adverbs (I’m looking at you, Stephen King). It’s one of the …
Suspicious Searches
Any writer who gives a fig about what they’re writing will endeavor to make it as realistic as possible. This …
8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need – College Humor
I had to share this. I would find the Sarcastesis particularly useful http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6872071/8-new-and-necessary-punctuation-marks
The Unreliable Narrator – The Black Cat
‘I neither expect nor solicit belief.’ So begins The Black Cat, which – along with The Tell-Tale Heart – constitute …
The Assignation – An Analysis
In 1834 Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Assignation was published. This short horror story takes place over a night and morning …
Does Every Scene Need a Cliffhanger?
This is a standard piece of advice you read in articles talking about how a writer structures their scenes and …
