Five Tips to Help You Read Like a Writer
Close reading is an essential skill for all writers, allowing you to uncover how your favorite stories tick and putting those techniques to work in your own story.
Five Things Good Dialogue Should Do
We writers often think dialogue should be the easiest aspect of storytelling. After all, we talk all the time IRL. Therefore, conversations between our characters should be a no-brainer. Right? Wrong! As an editor, I find dialogue to be one of the biggest hurdles writers face and they don’t even realize it.
31-Day Editing Challenge
One of the questions writers always ask when editing their work is: where do I begin? The 31-Day Editing Challenge will help you answer that question and more!
To Prologue or Not to Prologue…
If you want to start a heated debate at your next writing group, ask if you should include a prologue in your novel. Many writers love prologues, but many readers (and therefore agents) aren’t keen on them. As with many things, there’s no right or wrong answer. Let’s take look at both sides.
Find Your Writer’s Voice
When I was a writing student, one of my professors said, “Once you find your voice, this story will really shine.” As if, like my house keys, I’d simply misplaced my voice and would find it again somewhere I least expected it like inside the freezer or behind a...Why “Show, Don’t Tell” Is All Wrong
If you’ve been writing for more than five minutes, you’ve heard this old saw: Show, don’t tell. There is value in this message—whether you’re writing a short story, novel or memoir. But I think the takeaway gets overpowered by the mantra....I’m Reading
