Helping Writers Become Authors

Your real work begins with you have to figure out how to edit your book. Today, I'm going to show you how to navigate that potential minefield like a boss.

The re-readability factor separates books that are just fun from books that impact lives on meaningful levels. Let's explore five ways to do just that!

Setting descriptions can be surprisingly tricky to detail effectively. Are you committing these three mistakes? Find out how they're harming your story.

Here's an actionable five-step plan for going beyond simply being a reader and instead learning how to study plot and character in your favorite stories.

Smart authors know coincidences in fiction are bad news. But how can you stomp them when you see them coming? Here are four ways.

Like many authors, sometimes I find myself not feeling creative. Here are four steps we all can take this year to reclaim the wonder in our writing.

Here's how to write books readers love--and yet still hate you for. It's easy. All you have to do is divebomb into anticlimactic endings.

Consider three important factors in how to choose the right POV for your book--and how these factors can protect you from having to rewrite your book.

Sometimes your story is going to require not just one, but multiple antagonists. When that happens, how do you juggle them all? Here are three ways

Don't let chapter breaks be stumbling blocks between readers and the end of the book. Make breaks work for you by fascinating readers all the way through.

Avoiding "said" is one of the most common writing mistakes? Yep. Avoiding this hard-working speaker attribution can lead you into some major prose problems.

Turns out if you get your story's narrative voice right from the very start, everything else has a much better chance of falling into place like magic.

Here's how to create super-productive writing goals for NaNoWriMo and beyond. The best part? They're surprising painless.

If you can enforce all seven of these motivators in your writing life, they're guaranteed to spur you to keep writing during NaNo and beyond!

Don't head into November without a battle plan. Arm yourself with this Nano Pre-Writing Checklist you'll already be more than halfway to NaNoWriMo victory!

The most important goal of NaNoWriMo isn't having an awesome November. It's making sure you have an awesome rest of your writing life!

If you're ever worried your fiction may be failing, use these tips to challenge yourself to search out the truth--big or small--in every scene you write.

Need specific advice on how to edit fiction? Watch author K.M. Weiland edit her fiction in real time, featuring twelve lessons all writers can learn from.

Paragraphs are just breaks in the text, right? Using them is about as intuitive as it gets, right? Maybe not. Learn to avoid eight nasty paragraph mistakes.

Find out when participle phrases (those "-ing" words) are acceptable--and when are they not. Will using them make your book unacceptable to editors?