WriteAdvice: Introducing Character Appearances

A distinctive appearance for each character is perhaps less important in books than it is in movies or graphic novels, …

WriteAdvice: 3 Places to Seek Feedback

There’s one inescapable truth about your writing (there’s the clickbait title you avoided, you’re welcome): at first, it will suck. …

Persistence Not Perfection: NaNo Take 2 Midway Update

This update will be short, because my take on NaNoWriMo this month is non-traditional not just because I’m doing it …

WriteAdvice: The End… Writing a Satisfying Conclusion

I recently (by which I mean almost a month ago) received my pre-order of the re-release of Victoria Schwab’s The …

WriteAdvice: Persistence

I have some exciting news! Well, exciting for me. Probably already known by you (this will make sense in a …

NaNoWriMo Update- Day 1

I had hoped that this would be a more optimistic post—something along the lines of ‘I wrote 5 000 words …

Writercraft: Descriptive Writing—How much is too much?

Scene and character descriptions are a necessary part of writing fiction, and can be a lot of fun for writers …

WriteAdvice: What to do with ‘losing’ pieces of writing

You can all read titles, so you know what this article will be about. This intro then is just my …

Grumble: Main Character Disease—Rules need not apply

We’ve all read this a million times, right? When a race is extinct or hasn’t been heard from in years… …

WriteAdvice: Getting started

I am of the firm opinion that the hardest part of any project is getting started. I’m not talking about …