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Finding Your Author Voice

Your author voice is one of the most valuable things you bring to a manuscript. It is infused into every line and word of your writing.

Averbs: To Use or Not to Use

Adverbs get a bad rap in writing circles. Unfortunately, this is one of those writing "rules" that doesn't provide enough detail

Handling Multiple Points of View

Using multiple POV characters is very common and not hard to do. Here are a few tips for writing multiple POV stories well.

Deep Point of View

Deep POV is meant to be as close to the POV character as possible. You combine the narrator's voice and the POV character's voice into one.

Dialogue and Character Motivations

Dialogue can be tricky. Instead of being told by your usual narrator, dialogue lets each of your characters speak for themselves. The...

Keeping Your Speakers Straight

Here are some tips for using simple mechanics to help readers keep the speaker straight.

Show, Don't Tell

Every writer has heard this advice: Show, don't tell. It's all over the online writing communities. But the advice is a flawed rule

Said is NOT Dead

When writing dialogue, it can feel like you are writing an endless stream of names, pronouns, and dialogue tags. It can be a delicate...

Using Showing to Write Compelling Dialogue

A conversation which doesn’t effect the story, no matter how dynamic, realistic, and well-written, will feel like an unnecessary aside.

Filtering the World through a PoV Character

One common mistake that writers make is to describe the character sensing or thinking about things, rather than to describe them directly.

Writing Resources

If you don’t see the topic you’re looking for on my blog yet, I have made a list of some of my favorite writing advice.