Editor

Read a book about writing or attend just about any writing workshop and you’ll hear plenty about developing your style. Style is the way in… Read More »A Question of Style

 As a writer you must choose your character’s words wisely.  Dialogue sets pace, controls tone, reveals character, and moves the story forward. To write good… Read More »Adding life with Dialogue

Building Great Unforgettable Characters: Great characters can turn a mediocre plot into a great book. Most of you have heard that you shouldn’t write two-dimensional… Read More »Character Development

Serial characters Creating complex well-rounded characters takes time — time spent thinking about how your characters look, where they’re from, and what motivates them, for… Read More »Character Development pt2

Building Believable Characters: Utilizing dialect and other ways you can enhance your characters through dialogue. “W’en old man Rabbit say ‘scoot,’ dey scooted, en w’en… Read More »Character Development pt3

By no means is this an inclusive list. Commas tend to be the hardest punctuation tool to grasp all the time. Writers tend to throw… Read More »Commas

It is the essence of drama, the primary ingredient that blends together all the elements of a story.  Without it, you have no story. Conflict… Read More »Conflict

Elizabeth had green eyes and brown hair worn long in loose, flowing ringlets.  She had a cute little nose, full lips that she always shaped… Read More »Description and Settings

This is a pep talk for writers who might be feeling discouraged. Most of you are probably better than the author I have cited below,… Read More »Don’t give up!