Battle of the Critiques
Stormrise author Jillian Boehme shares tips on how to use critiques to better your writing.
Mirror Mirror On the Wall: Tips to Writing a Modern Fairytale
Sisters of Shadow and Light author Sara B. Larson shares how her writing was influenced by fairytales for #NaNoWriMo!
How to Write Believable Liars
Alexis Bass, author of the upcoming novel An Education in Ruin shares tips on how to write a believable liar.
Reclaiming the Old West in The Good Luck Girls
The Good Luck Girls author Charlotte Nicole Davis shares a letter to her readers.
Pushing Through the First Draft
Stormrise author Jillian Boehme shares tips on how to get through the first draft.
Writing for the Screen vs the Page
Some writers dream of their words bound up in print. Some long to see their worlds on the silver screen. Debut author Robert Cochran is one of the lucky ones who’s got it both ways. Robert Cochran is an Emmy Award-winning executive producer and showrunner who co-created and executive produced the international television series Read More »
Building the World of Ship of Smoke and Steel
wcag test heading Many years ago, a friend of mine and I were doing some world design for a D&D campaign, and talking about one aspect of the default world presented in the manuals that has always bugged me: the role of magic in their society makes no sense. The rule we came up with, Read More »
Doing #NaNoWriMo This Month? Susan Dennard Has Your Back
Are you doing #NaNoWriMo? Get tips from NYT bestselling author Susan Dennard!
Writing Out of Order
Author Susan Dennard describes how she learned that writing chronologically isn’t always the answer, and you don’t need to begin at the beginning.
Worldbuilding at the Natural History Museum
Cora Carmack discusses how she excavated the world of Roar by thinking about the relics cultures leave behind.