J.M Robison,

WRITER: Any way you can go a little faster or read more than one chapter at a time? So little at once so far apart can lead to the...

HOW TO: Take all your characters and force them into a theoretical dance club. Make them stand so they form a circle in the middle of...

There are only 2 forces in this world: what we make happen by our own two hands (we drive the car) and the random acts we react to (we...

Us writers love to introduce beautiful characters. It’s poetic and tugs at our heartstrings when a dashing cowboy struts into the scene,...

Have a looooooooooong chapter and want to cut it but don’t know where? Cut the chapter right when you blast the reader with surprise,...

The age-old debate…to wear pants, or not to wear pants? Oh, that’s not the debate…? Maybe it’s…to outline or not to outline (but that...

I didn’t think this was an issue, but after reading so many books, both by published authors and author-hopefuls, I realize it’s not only...

What is a story rule? It is that rule which you create in your character and/or plot that is never to be broken. Example: RULE - a man...

I’m editing an old favorite story of mine – THE LOST GODS (16 years in the making. It’s gone through about 3 massive overhauls already.)...

I am a Christian, as I stated before in my sister blog post: Christianity and Literary Sex Scenes. I was raised to believe in doing what...

I shared a blog post to my Facebook writer’s group. In this blog I said, “And in all things, writing must be realistic.” A fellow writer...

As a Christian there is a negative connotation when it comes to sex. It is often portrayed as being, “Inappropriate to talk about,” or...

I’m Christian. I’ll even go so far as to say I’m a Latter Day Saint (Morman) so I abstain from smoking, alcohol, premarital sex, and...

I’m an avid reader of fantasy books. I’m also an avid writer of fantasy books. And, what the heck, I’m also an avid enthusiast about maps...

This review a beta reader gave me changed my writing life forever: “I am not a major fan of the words "had' and "that" and eliminate them...

I was beta reading for someone, and I asked them, “Is this your first draft? If not, what draft number are you on?” And his reply, “I...

Why should you kill characters? When should you kill characters? How many characters should you kill? WHY: For me, I kill characters when...

I didn't know what genre The War Queen was about. I knew it was a New Adult because my main characters are 29 and 35 and I knew it was a...

POV: Point of View (everything happening as one character sees it. EX: I saw it, she saw it, you saw it) TENSE: past, present, or future...

What we like to read changes every few years. In the 8th century people liked Beowulf. In 1600 people liked Shakespear (written in poetry...