How To Start A Story
When you first start writing your story, and you're introducing your characters, it can be easy to feel stalled. There…
Why Your Story Needs Foreshadowing And How To Write It
Foreshadowing is the technique of hinting to your audience where your story is going, without actually telling them. It works…
Top Reasons To Kill Your Character’s Parents
If you want to write books for children or young adults, killing your character's parents is a common trope you…
How To Write Entertaining World Building
World Building is the technique of telling your readers what world your story is set in, whether the laws of…
How To Write Likeable Characters
Your Protagonist, the main character, of your story usually need to be likeable. I say usually, because having a Protagonist…
How To Write A Conflict Lock
One of the key ingredients to a successful story is for your characters to be well motivated. Your Protagonist, your…
How To Track Your Continuity
Your story "continuity" is making sure that from one scene to another, nothing changes about the people or the environment…
Top Reasons To Stop Writing Gender Stereotypes Into Your Story Now
I've written before about how powerful fiction is, and how we can use our stories to do good in the…
How To Write A Good Prose To Dialogue Ratio?
If your book is too dialogue heavy, it can read like a script. You don't get to know the environment…
How To Successfully Write Death And Resurrection
The resurrection of characters that have died can be a dramatic game changer that enhances your story, however, if used…
How To Write Characters Transitioning From Enemies To Friends Or Lovers
Characters that start out as enemies, and through the course of the story turn into friends or lovers is quite…
Make Your Character Motivation Understandable So Your Story Makes Sense
I've written before about how your Protagonist and your Antagonist both have to be motivated to go after what it…
How To Stop Coincidences From Ruining Your Story
A coincidence in a story is an event that happens that has no foreshadowing and no intent, it wasn't something…
How To Create A Feeling Of Suspense In Your Story
If you are writing a scary story, or a thriller or a mystery, suspense is one of the key things…
How To Use Time-Locks To Write High Stakes Drama
A "time-lock" is best to use in your story when you've established who your Protagonist and Antagonist are, you've pitted…