It doesn’t matter how well a story is structured, or how clever the writing is, if it isn’t clear to readers what the text is meant to...

Good Writing Patterns: Creating Emotion Hello! Welcome. Yesterday I talked about the importance of getting cause and effect right fo...

Suspension of disbelief is crucial to crafting an immersive story. If readers don’t believe in the story, they won’t keep reading. So ho...

Hi! Welcome back. A short post today. I’m not being lazy, I’m working on three much longer ones, but that’s for next week. Today, I thou...

When I’m putting together a writing prompt I think of the five Ws: Who, What, When, Where and Why. Who When you look at this beauti...

Yesterday, I posted about the six scenes every romance novel needs. Today I'm going to write about the five characters every romance...

Love is love, but there tends to be a certain pattern to how it progresses, both in fiction and real life. I’m going to go over three ...

When I was a kid I had absolutely NO idea how to write an entertaining story. I wish someone had whispered the phrase “story arc” in ...