
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

Back To Basics: 3 Steps To Plot
What are the best plots? We thought we should go back to basics with 3 steps to plot your story.

What Is Impostor Syndrome & How Do Writers Get Over It?
Ever felt like you’re not a ‘real writer’ after all? That’s called impostor syndrome. This post will tell you how writers overcome imposter syndrome.

How To Write Historically Correct Books Without Offending Modern Sensibilities
Many attitudes of the past haven’t aged well. We look at how to write historically correct books without offending modern sensibilities.

5 Addictions That Secretly Sabotage Your Writing
Is your writing in a slump? Even though you’re doing all the right things. Maybe it’s too much of a good thing. This post is

Authors With Different Pen Names For Different Genres (Infographic)
In this post we share an infographic of authors with different pen names for different genres.

Authors With One Pen Name Across Different Genres (Infographic)
In this post we share an infographic of authors with one pen name across genres. They only used one pen name when they wrote.

Should You Use A Pen Name For Every Genre That You Write?
For writers, there are pros and cons to using a pen name or pseudonym. In this post, we ask and answer the question: Should you

The Writers Write Snowflake Method Of Plotting A Book
Plotting can be tricky. In this post, we look at how you can use the Writers Write Snowflake Method of Plotting to write your book.

How Honing Your Craft Can Stop You From Writing
Hooked on books about writing? Beware! This post is about how honing your craft can keep you from writing and what you can do about

How To Work With A Book Illustrator
Book illustrators are incredibly valuable members of your team. Find out how to work with a book illustrator in this post.

Reverse Engineering For Writers
Feeling stuck in your story? Waffling about? Reverse Engineering For Writers might do the trick! You can learn about it in this post.