
4 Tips And Tricks To Help You Survive Your Outline
If you have been working on a plan for your novel, you will enjoy this post where we look at tips and tricks to help

A Bit Of Love For Your Short-Story-Telling Soul
Do you have a few short story self-care days planned? In this post, we talk about how to look after your short-story-telling soul.

5 Ways To Add Love To Popular Genres
Characters from every genre tend to all in love. Here are 5 ways to add love to popular genres.

5 Ways To Start Using Killer Dialogue In Your Story
Dialogue is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal as writers. In this post, we share 5 ways to start using killer dialogue

How Do You Come To Story?
Stories come to us in the forms of poems, short stories, novels, movies, even in journalism and rhetoric. In this post, we ask: How do

Do You Have A Romance Novel In You?
This competition is now closed. Harlequin Romance is always looking for new authors to write for them. The Harlequin Romance Blitz is your chance to

Back To Basics: 3 Steps To Setting
As we wrap up January of the New Year, we’re looking at the three basics of fiction writing, and we’ve covered plot and character and

Back To Basics: 3 Steps To Character
To kick start the new year, we’re getting back to the core basics of fiction writing – plot, character, and setting. This week, our focus

The Top 42 Writing Posts Of 2017
These were the posts you most wanted to see on this website in 2017.

9 Ways To Set Up Believable Fictional Breakups
Are your characters heading for a fictional split? If you are writing a book, we’ve put together a post on 9 ways to set up

5 Times When We Are Pro The Prologue
We aren’t normally in favour of using prologues, but here are 5 times when we are pro the prologue.

How To Market Your Book
In this post, we look at how to market your book as an indie author.

Why You Need An Antagonist In Your Story
In this post, we write about why you need an antagonist in your story.

6 Simple Ways To Create Satisfying Scene Endings
How do you create an ending to a scene or chapter that satisfies the reader and moves your story forward? This post is about 6

7 Reasons Why Living With A Writer May Be Challenging
In this post, we discuss 7 reasons why living with a writer may be challenging.

7 Important Reasons Writers Should Also Be Readers
Are you a writer who doesn’t read? In this post, we share 7 important reasons writers should also be readers.

How Emotion Can Serve Or Destroy A Story
We don’t want to drown our readers in emotion and sentiment. In this post, we find out how the use of emotion can serve or

Multiple Writing Projects Can Help: A Little Something On The Writing Side
Some of us write for fun. Some of us write for pay. Some of us write because it keeps the cost of prescription medication at

Psychopath Or Sociopath – What’s The Difference?
This infographic explains key common traits and differences between psychopaths and sociopaths. In this post, we look at psychopaths and sociopaths and ask; What’s the

The Two Types Of Inciting Moments
We have put together this post on the two types of inciting moments to help you write your story. The one is major and the