The Writer's Workout

For this Back to Basics mini-course, we’re talking about flawed characters. Each Back to Basics course includes a challenge at the end to...

Setting is an important aspect of creative writing because it’s the place where the story unfolds.

Dialogue is a very important component of stories, one that may seem simple at first but is more complex the more you think about it.

Back to Basics: Sympathetic Antagonists talks about building villains your readers will love.

For this Back to Basics mini-course, we’re talking about flashbacks. Each Back to Basics course includes a short video (linked at the...

Why is conflict so important to a story? Conflicts drive characters to act. Characters can be in conflict with themselves, others, or nature

For January, the Back to Basics skill challenge is sentence structure. Writing as a craft comes with so many different fundamentals that...