Innovative Editing

We started touching on the topic of publishing last week. But this week, we’re taking a deeper dive into one branch of it in particular… (Dr

So you say you’re ready to publish. You’ve written everything you needed to write and edited everything you needed to edit. You even asked

On April 12, 2017, Success.com ran an article called “6 Tips to Rule the Art of Conversation.” It opened with, “The art of conversation is

Open a book by Charles Dickens. When you do, you’re bound to find a different writing style than what you’d find reading J.K. Rowling. “Duh

I didn’t plan to discuss bias on a week that’s filled with more political finger-pointing than usual. I had the issue of preconceived notion

When you first open up a novel, you’re relatively clueless about its contents. Oh, you’ve seen the front cover and you’ve read the back-jack

Writing a first draft is a sometimes heady, sometimes frustrating, sometimes debilitating experience. There’s a lot to it, what with: Comin

Let’s start with this statement: Sometimes, plot holes happen. That’s our thesis right there. It’s meant as both a caution to those authors

When was the last time you picked up a book, opened it up and went, “Wow! That’s boring. I want to buy it!” If you’re anything like me, tha

Starting a story out can be an absolute ton of fun. When you first begin, it’s like you’re on an exploratory expedition. You’ve committed t

Shakespeare once penned that, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” That was in the complicated tale of Romeo and Juliette, during the balcony sce

Once you hit the falling action part of your plot, it’s official: the climactic moment is complete. The darkest moment is over, with your p

You know the part of a novel where there’s no more build-up. No more teasing. Just raw, unadulterated passion? In an espionage tale, this m

Perhaps I should have brought the plot diagram back up during our discussion on the first stage of storytelling – the beginning. But...

There are great story beginnings, and there are uninspiring story beginnings. There are action-packed story beginnings, and there are slow,

You can get a guide to starting your story in such a way that you’ll be able to more easily finish it. What it looks like when you finish it

Since we’re talking about point of view in fiction today, let’s start out with three different examples of it. They’re all taken from novel

Since today’s topic is dialogue tags – which you may or may not know about – let’s start out with a paragraph of dialogue, which… thanks to

Before I start out my sad little sob story below, please rest assured that you didn’t read the larger blog’s title wrong. This really is...

Your main character, Maggie, is running along the beach. Her bare feet dance away from the waves that crawl up the slight slopes, soaking up