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Environmental Storytelling:The Secret Weapon for Descriptive Prose

Environmental storytelling is an aspect of descriptive writing that often gets overlooked by many writers. Done well, it can be the secret weapon that lifts your descriptive writing to the next level for a reader. It’s a technique that builds greater immersion and engagement with...

Persist No Matter How Many Times You Are Rejected

You’ve heard it many times before that getting a book traditionally published isn’t easy. Manuscript rejection has deprived the world of many great potential writers. Rejection is soul-crushing to any writer because they value the opinions of publishers and literary agents. They look up to...

Habits and Mannerisms Make Your Characters Human

Our daily lives are filled with tiny actions and gestures that we never pay attention to and forget at the end of the day. From sniffing a bottle of perfume, petting a dog, or clicking our tongue in disgust at an auto-correct message, these trivial...

Your Sacrificial Characters Must Do More than Just Sacrifice

Sacrificial characters are nothing new in different genres, especially in action thrillers. Sacrificial characters are the typical people in your neighborhood (unless it’s fantasy or sci-fi). We read them in a passive manner, second-guessing how their appearance in the story will advance the plot or...

Believing the Unbelievable in Fiction

Sometimes when you read a story, you shake your head and say, “This is impossible!" But somewhere out there, somebody is reading the same story. He suspends his element of disbelief and buys the story as plausible. Regardless of its genre, the reader is convinced...

Six tips to combat writers’ block – Part 2

In part 1 of this article, we covered three tips – specific writing output, mental editing, and sleeping on it. We examine the remaining three here in part 2. Tip 4 – Park it temporarily This is a continuation to the ‘sleep on it’ rule. When you...

Six tips to combat writers’ block – Part 1

Writing is an individual activity. Inspiration can strike anywhere. However, the craft of writing is solitary and cognitively intensive. As a result, writers encounter writers’ block. It is a natural part of the writing process. My experience is that writers’ block can lead to positive...

Nonfiction Sells Better Than Fiction

I have numerous memories of rhubarb. As a very young child, I would help my great-grandfather harvest his very prolific rhubarb patch. This rhubarb is the foundation of my rhubarb patch today, 50 years later. Just as prolific and overgrown as my great-grandfather’s, my rhubarb...

Notebooks and the Writer

I believe Ernest Hemingway said it best in A Moveable Feast: “I belong to this notebook and this pencil.” Okay, so we don’t all use the real paper kind of notebook anymore and many of us probably don’t even own a pencil, but the value...

Your Character Must Change in the Process

Part of character development is your character changing as your story progresses. If your character doesn’t change, readers will have no reason to understand his sentiments and motives. However, changing a character just because he should without the proper circumstance to trigger this might throw...