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What is Foreshadowing?

Foreshadowing is a literary technique we often come across in literature. Writers in nonfiction do not enjoy the luxury of using foreshadowing because it is mostly associated with and used in fiction. If properly used, foreshadowing can play a vital role in the success of a...

Gamify Your Writing Routine

Procrastination can be the death of any writing project or, in extreme cases, career. It’s so easy to fall down the rabbit hole of chores, social media, and “research” that we may never actually get around to doing what matters: the writing, the revising, the...

Crucial Aspects of Romance Narrative Your Outline Should Address

You need to include anything that helps you write your novel in your story outline. This includes details about who your characters are, how their actions drive the plot forward, and every fact you base your story on. Your story outline exists for your own...

The Importance of Story Outline in Writing Romance Novels

A story outline is how you organize the events of the story before you begin to write it. An outline is a road map that brings a narrative to the desired destination of a polished work of fiction. Storytelling is like a journey through a route...

How To Make Your Setting a Supportive Secondary Character

In most romances, the setting is not a major highlight, as it should be. It's meant to be the unsung hero of your narrative, providing context and helping your plot and characters progress. But sometimes, you may have a story where the setting plays a...

Let's Talk About Irony

What is irony? Most writers will agree that irony is one of the most fun, entertaining, and interesting literary devices to use in writing, yet quite hard to grasp. Some writers may also find it hard to tell the difference between sarcasm and irony. I would...

Creative Mindfulness: Free Writing

Students who have studied the world of writing may have already been subjected to this technique, because it works on so many fantastic levels to boost creativity, clear the mind and unleash unwanted negativities when you’d like to be productive during your day. Best of...

Creative Mindfulness: Emotive Reading

We all have those days where everything gets on top of us, and a lot of the more calming exercises that we might try to employ just simply don’t work. So what happens when you have too much emotion bubbling up inside you? Here’s a...

Creative Mindfulness: Detailed Photography

In the world of smartphones and digital media, photography is everywhere, and pretty much everyone has some sort of camera at their disposal wherever they are during their day. This exercise looks at photography from a (literally) different angle, to turn those endless snaps into...

Using Setting to Illuminate and Enhance Your Characters

A location tells a lot about the person or people who inhabit it. An organized office, a scattered room, a neatly arranged work desk, a mansion in Malibu or a studio apartment in Queens tell us a person is organized, scattered, rich, or struggling. This...