Young Adult novels are extremely popular right now. I myself write Young Adult fantasy. But there can be a lot of confusion around what...

On Saturday I attended the Michigan Writing Workshop outside of Detroit. I’m here to share my experience with you today. The event was...

On a good day, writing is all about passion and love, loving what we’re doing and loving our stories and characters. But that all...

Foreshadowing can be a tricky thing to master in your story, but it can add depth and subtlety to your work. When it works, it’s like a...

The inciting incident is one of the most important scenes in your novel. It’s the first major plot point and leads to all other plot...

So part of our job as writers is to do more than just write. We need to build our platforms and social media presence as well. And, like...

A lot of books nowadays are part of a series. And we love to revisit our favorite characters and story worlds again. But there’s so much...

Well, federal holidays count and there’s good reason to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, so I thought I’d do a...

Metaphor, simile, alliteration, symbolism, personification, these literary devices and techniques can be found in both poetry and prose,...

Besides the protagonist, several other characters feature in our stories, as they should. What would our tale be without the antagonist?...

Your goal to making characters should be to create real people, not cardboard cutouts. You want characters to feel genuine and fleshed...

Sometimes our concepts for our stories span more than one book. And that’s ok because series are popular these days as readers love to...

If your story is lacking depth and layers you may need to add a subplot or two to it. What is a subplot? A subplot is a smaller plot line...

So you thought writing your novel was hard, until you had to write a synopsis. How do you cram your entire manuscript into one page? Are...

Once you have a finished manuscript that’s polished and refined, you may be asking yourself what comes next. If you’re looking to get...

If you’re a writer and you want to make a career out of writing, writer’s conferences are wonderful things to attend. Not only do they...

It’s happened to us all before. We go home with a new book, get cozy, and settle in to read. But although the storyline is interesting...

It’s been a while since I’ve done an update and I’ve recently made progress so I’m dedicating today’s post to that. I’ve been working on...

Last week we talked about revising, which deals with major tweaks to make your rough draft less rough. This includes plot changes,...

So you finished your rough draft and celebrated accordingly. Congrats! But you’re not done yet, not by a long shot. Next comes revision....