What is Your Story’s Engine?
Understanding your story’s engine is essential to creating a good story. I recently wrote about writer intent and why it’s…
Writing
What is Writer Intent?
When you first start writing (or even after you’ve been writing for a long time), you hear a lot about…
Writing a Book That Exists Between Genre Lines
I think about genre in relation to The Last Summer (of You and Me) a lot. It’s a contemporary novel…
Tips for Writing Great Dialogue
One of the biggest things new writers and even intermediate writers tend to struggle with is dialogue. This makes sense…
How to Format Dialogue
We’re going back to the basics today. Formatting dialogue properly is so important for making sure your reader can easily…
Are There Hard and Fast Writing Rules?
Short answer? No. But let’s talk about why. I’m on Pinterest quite a bit, and I see a lot of…