Worldbuilding is People
Part of worldbuilding – whether you are writing an epic Sci-Fi story or a quiet romance […]
Poetic Technique for Prose Writers
Blog Post – Poetic Technique for Prose Writers I love language. The sound of words. The […]
The Freedom of the First Draft
I hope everyone survived NaNoWriMo. How’d you do? Even if you didn’t hit 50K, I hope […]
I Gotta Be Me!
Character agency refers to a character’s ability to make decisions that affect the outcome of a […]
Who’s Your Protag?
If you’re writing a book with multiple viewpoints, sometimes it can be confusing to figure out […]
Narrative as Interpreter in Fiction Writing
When we’re talking fiction writing, what really is narrative? It’s everything that isn’t action and isn’t […]
A Writer Reads, Always
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to […]
Well, I wasn’t expecting THAT!
This whole month, I want to talk about the relationship between writing and reading. I’ve talked […]
Freytag’s Pyramid
In 1863 Gustov Freytag, first known as a playwright and later a novelist, published Die Technik […]