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It’s easy when you’re writing to feel like your plot exists in a vacuum. But characters are fictionalized people, and people have other thin

#PitMad is a micro book pitch event on Twitter put on by Pitch Wars each quarter wherein writers send up to 3 tweets per manuscript...

First off, congratulations! Whether you have finished your novel or just barely limped over your word count goals, there’s a pretty good...

One of my friends working for a big 5 publishing house said that one of the most heartbreaking reasons she frequently rejects manuscripts...

Book coaching is a much more flexible format than editing to work on your writing priorities. Coaches act in partnership with authors...

If you’re the typical NaNoWriMo participant, you’re trying to write 50,000 words this month. That’s 1,667 words a day, give or take.

Senses are a shared experience that serve as building blocks for scene setting. A character should reflect upon more than just how it looks.

While you are choosing the point of view for your novel, it’s possible you’ll find that one narrator isn’t enough to build tension...