by Lindsay Flanagan | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Editing, Fiction How-to
Part 1: Seven Tips by Emilee Newman Bowles Your plot and characters are vital parts of your story, but they need a place to inhabit: the setting. Even fast-paced action novels need setting details so readers can imagine where the characters are. Here a few tips to...
by Lindsay Flanagan | Jul 4, 2016 | Blog, Editing, Fiction How-to
by Kristin Ammerman Bestselling authors such as Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jeff Wheeler, Cassandra Clare, Neil Gaiman, and others write novels as well as short stories. There are several reasons why novelists also write short stories. Sense of...
by Lindsay Flanagan | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog, Fiction How-to
by Sabine Berlin “I can’t believe you did that!” We’ve all been there. You’re reading a book (or watching a movie) and you’re completely immersed in a story, when suddenly your hero does something that makes no sense whatsoever. While there are some cases where you...
by Lindsay Flanagan | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Editing, Fiction How-to, Nonfiction How-to
by Angela Eschler Next to “Write what you know,” the most common piece of advice I hear at conferences is “Just write every day.” I always cringe a little when I hear that. Not because it’s not good advice. It is. But because it’s not the best advice for a...
by Lindsay Flanagan | Apr 23, 2016 | Blog, Editing
by Emilee Newman Bowles Congratulations! You’ve written your true story or breathed life into characters who once existed only in your imagination—now what? Whether you’ve got fiction or nonfiction under your belt, now it’s time to take a look at your sentences,...
