Innovative Editing

If you’re writing rising action for an action-oriented novel, you might not have appreciated yesterday’s Writing Challenge. All that lovey-d

So you have your rising action segment. And it’s long. Like really long. Likes pages and pages, and chapters and chapters long. If, as we me

If you ever have way too much time on your hands… And you want to go down a rabbit hole that could possibly prove worthwhile… This is what y

The rising action is the longest and most detailed part of the story 99.9999999 times out of 100. Or more. And once you understand exactly w

Every writer knows (or should know) the importance of a story’s first few lines. They’re what make up the narrative hook, that element desig

You’ve got a great story idea. It’s the next big thing, and you just know it’s going to be amazing. Literary fever has officially hit your c

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

Here’s a really important question that every writer should consider: How many points of view should your story hold? In asking this questio

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a creative writer named Sam. Now, this creative writer (named Sam) wrote all his storie

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

If yesterday’s article seemed to lean too far toward the anti-dialogue tags side of the creative writer debate, I apologize. Let me clear up

Let’s talk about the controversy surrounding the topic of writing with or without dialogue tags. Considering their definition, you might be

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

We’re about to focus on writing dialogue specifically for villains, but the following advice can easily be applied elsewhere. Protagonists,

Last year, I had a run-in with a certain computer company that I will never buy anything from again. Before I start out my sad little sob st

Yesterday, I admitted how I’m not very into reading about setting details. However, that doesn’t mean I’m not into writing about setting det

I should probably start out by admitting that, as a reader, I’m not very interested in setting details. When I pick up a new novel, the last

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

Absolutely everyone has an idea of what cliché means when it comes to character creation. For example, Kailee Schnabele of The Flagler Rev

Thanks to the April 4 Writing Challenge concerning main characters, you already know it’s important to make your protagonists relatable. Tha