Helping Writers Become Authors
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Are You Using "There" as a Crutch?
Jan 9, 20114 min
10 Writing Resolutions You Can Fulfill
Jan 2, 20116 min
7 Reasons Weather Is a Writer's Friend
Dec 26, 20105 min
Are Your Verbs Showing or Telling?
Dec 19, 20105 min
8 Reasons to Let Your Story Ripen
Dec 12, 20105 min
What Kind of Writer Are You?
Dec 5, 20105 min
Description: Friend or Foe?
Nov 28, 20105 min
Why Are You Writing This Story?
Nov 14, 20105 min
Are You Dating Your Fiction?
Nov 7, 20106 min
Juxtaposition: The Power of the Unexpected in Fiction
Oct 31, 20105 min
Use Motion to Spice up Your Scenes
Oct 24, 20105 min
Love Your Characters - Or Else!
Oct 17, 20105 min
Is Your Dialogue Pulling Its Weight?
Oct 10, 20107 min
The Worst Writing Advice
Oct 3, 20105 min
The Best Writing Advice
Sep 26, 20106 min
Are You a Writer?
Sep 19, 20106 min
Research: When in Doubt, Make It Up
Sep 12, 20107 min
Is Your Story Mysterious Enough?
Sep 5, 20106 min
Should You Edit As You Go?
Aug 29, 20105 min
Are You Benefiting From the Intimacy of Pronouns?
Aug 15, 20104 min
5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters
Aug 8, 20106 min
Whap! Pow! Zing! - How Can You Tell if Your Story Has Emotional Resonance?
Jul 25, 20106 min
Why Your Character's Motive Matters
Jul 18, 20105 min
6 Reasons a Premise Sentence Strengthens Your Story
Jul 11, 20106 min
Is the Thesaurus Your Friend?
Jul 4, 20104 min
Should Stories Be Soapboxes?
Jun 27, 20105 min
Why No Writer Knows What He's Doing
Jun 20, 20104 min
Change is the Key to Powerful Character Arcs
Jun 13, 20104 min
Maximize Your Story's Inciting Event
Jun 6, 20105 min
8 Ways Writing Longhand Frees Your Muse
May 30, 20105 min
Generality Is the Death of the Novel
May 23, 20105 min
Creating a Functional Writing Station
May 16, 20102 min
Improve Yourself, Improve Your Writing
May 9, 20104 min
When Your Story Doesn't Turn Out Like You Planned
May 2, 20104 min
10 Ways to Write Skinny Sentences
Apr 25, 20105 min
Why Character Stereotypes Are a Good Thing
Apr 18, 20105 min
Daydream or Die!
Apr 11, 20105 min
Are You Using Too Many Settings?
Apr 4, 20105 min
Does Your Story Have the Extraordinary Factor?
Mar 28, 20104 min
What a Mouse Can Teach You About Story Arc
Mar 22, 20105 min
Rewriting Made Easy
Mar 14, 20105 min
15 Lessons From the Masters
Mar 7, 20105 min
Three Words That Kill Writing Procrastination
Feb 28, 20104 min
Strengthen Your Story by Writing the Perfect Review
Feb 14, 20104 min
Plot vs. Character: Which Is More Important?
Feb 7, 20105 min
Are You Using Setting to Deepen Your Characters?
Jan 31, 20105 min
Embrace Your Internal Editor
Jan 24, 20104 min
Are You Called to Be a Writer?
Jan 17, 20104 min
Why Word Count Goals Can Be Destructive
Jan 10, 20104 min
10 Habits of Successful Authors
Jan 3, 20105 min