Writing Articles

How to Pants – Successfully Write a Novel Without an Outline

By Grace A. Johnson ​ Most of y’all know that I’m a diehard pantser. I can’t help but wing my stories, jumping headfirst into the first chapter without properly planning each chapter, each scene, each paragraph. A lot of us see pantsing as something only hobby writers...

The When, Why, and How of Writing Dialects

By KoshkaWhile accents may be necessary for those mysterious side characters and to portray the complexity of our fantastic worlds, they also have a tendency to make dialogue difficult or even unintelligible.We hand our beautifully written manuscript over to some...

KP Book Review: 5 Editors Tackle The 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing by C.S. Lakin et al.

Sometimes you read a book about writing and enjoy it, but you never think about it after you put it back on the shelf. Other times a book immediately earns a spot in your section of writing resources that you reference regularly. This book is definitely one of the...

KP Book Review: Creating Character Arcs

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. According to Writer’s Digest, K.M. Weiland runs one of the top one hundred writing sites, and she spends a lot of time on her blog giving advice to writers. Since...
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