Creative Writing

Write Your Novel with Mini-Goals

Weekly Goals = Steady Progress

How to be interesting (Writers on Writing)

Liven up your fiction by ditching these dull scenes

Twelve scenes you should cut from your novel

if you don’t want to put your readers to sleep

3 Simple Steps to Start Your Novel

Starting a novel is hard. Take these 3 simple steps to make it painless.

How to Be Interesting

and other thoughts on novel writing

You know that feeling when you walk into a great house? Or even just an interesting house? The feeling you get that things are in order, or aren’t. The feeling of the home being well-composed or chaotic…

Getting your characters to talk

Secrets of writing great dialogue in fiction

How to Structure a Story

the five-point guide that you can apply to (almost) any story

Great characters don’t write themselves.

What’s Happening This Week in MASTER THE SHORT STORY

It’s All About Character!

What’s Happening This Week in MASTER THE SHORT STORY

How short stories can open the door to publishing

You don’t have to write a novel to break into print