Posted on February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
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:
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Coping mechanism thesaurus — seeking balance: Becca Puglisi gives examples of how seeking balance, as a way to process and handle stress and hurt, can hold your character back (Writers Helping Writers).
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The four-act structure and the circular shape of story: K.M. Weiland actually prefers to think of story as a generative cycle, in which the ending is seeded in the beginning — and vice versa — and she explains how such a structure works (Helping Writers Become Authors).
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Using contradictions to create microtension, part two: This installment of C.S. Lakin's series focuses on putting the contradictions in a character's interiority (Live Write Thrive).
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Four newbie writer mistakes: Anne R. Allen shares four basically universal mistakes that new authors make early in the process of writing a book (Anne R. Allen's Blog... with Ruth Harris).
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What finishing a novel series taught me: Author Magda Mizzi learned far more from the act of completing a full series than she did from the drafting process (Writer's Digest).
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