The Writer's Workout

How well do you know your character's emotional depth? Digging deep into a character's emotions is important for a writer because it...

The Writer’s Workout lists pacing as one of our Core Concepts because it has a massive impact on each story we write. Strong pacing pulls...

What Is Backstory? Backstory is a literary device used to present the history of a character before the events of a story begin. This...

What is cohesion? Simply put, it is a single, well-thought-out plan for your story. Cohesion is the equivalent of tidying up your...

Dialogue, as you may already know, is a conversation between two or more characters. In real life, people have conversations all the...

From the moment we are born, we are advancing—whether we would like to or not. Old, smaller teeth fall out and get replaced with new,...

Have you ever been reading a story and you can’t put it down? The plot is engaging, the characters are dynamic, and then just as you’re flying through the pages, the puzzle pieces finally click together, your mouth drops open, and you internally (or externally, I don’t judge) just go, “WOAH.”  That’s the “Aha!” moment, or as we call it in writing, the full circle of foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is when the writer starts to hint at what is to come. This device is used for many