Craft tips for authors: November 4, 2025

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. 

Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:

• Secondary characters should want something, too (Anne R. Allen's Blog... with Ruth Harris) 

• Six ways to create amazing character chemistry (Writers Helping Writers)

• Coping mechanism thesaurus entry: Altruism (Writers Helping Writers)

• The art of propulsive fiction (Writer Unboxed) 

• Five ways to keep the story moving between the big moments (Helping Writers Become Authors) 

• How learning to knit saved my novel (Jane Friedman) 

• Prologues that work and why (Jane Friedman)