The Writer's Workout

No matter if you are writing a historical fiction novel, a "what-if" novel, or a real-world novel, all of these stories have one thing in...

Have you ever played The Sims, and spent longer creating your characters, and building their house than you did actually playing the...

Tap, tap. Your fingers fly across the keyboard, punching in the final letters. You toss in a catchy final line, fling yourself back in...

Sometimes we just need to take a break from writing the bulk of our story and have a little fun with it. This can be done in a ton of...

I’ll spare you a hackneyed discussion of the old books-and-their-covers adage, and instead ask you to visualize something: First think...

Most of us have fallen victim to the cliffhanger. Either on your favorite television show or in your favorite book, cliffhangers are what...

Literary Theory and Criticism remains an important part of the industry. While it may seem inaccessible outside academia, I think it has...