People Don’t Talk Like That: Mastering Dialogue
This post is the third in a five-part series on the elements of fiction writing, in collaboration with the Ice Colony. Dialogue is one element of fiction that stands apart […]
This post is the third in a five-part series on the elements of fiction writing, in collaboration with the Ice Colony. Dialogue is one element of fiction that stands apart […]
Mental illness is often portrayed in fiction in a way that is highly innacurate. There are so many common misconceptions reinforced by depictions in books and movies, it can be […]
I absolutely love writing kids in fiction. I’ve always preferred kids to adults in real life, and after spending more than eight years nannying and majoring in Developmental Psychology at […]
Whether you‘re writing a hard-hitting literary novel or a fluffy summer romance, getting the dynamic between a couple right is both difficult and important to writing a compelling story, and […]
Capturing the genuine heart of the human experience in fiction relies heavily on poignant and impactful depiction of emotion. In order to evoke feeling in the reader, you must evoke […]
*This is the second of five posts in collaboration with The Ice Colony on the elements of storytelling. Last month we tackled character development. Now we’re onto plot. Plotting a […]
Part of being successful as a writer is finding a routine that works for you. Over the past several years, I’ve developed my own personal writing process. TLDR—I couldn’t do […]
*This post is part of a collaboration with The Ice Colony, and the first in a monthly series on the craft of writing. In my experience, good characters are the […]
Most writers, myself included, can attest to the fact that even once you’ve got a killer plot and great characters, writing a novel can be difficult on a chapter to […]
Oh, God. I hate editing. I love writing. And unfortunately, if you want to be a halfway decent writer, you need to do a lot of editing. Over and over […]
First off, it is indeed possible even without experience. It takes work, but it’s not ridiculously hard to start a career as a writer if you’re willing to put a […]
Over the past several months, I’ve found myself aching to write about writing. Other than New York, my family and friends, and my various vices, writing is the only thing […]