Craft tips for authors: June 2, 2023

Posted on June 2, 2023 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and creativity advice to offer. Here are the ones that we...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Plot / narrative, Publishing, Writing advice

Top tips for authors: May 5, 2023

Posted on May 5, 2023 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft, marketing, and business advice to offer. Here are the ones that...

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Tagged As: Artificial intelligence (AI), Email newsletter, Plot / narrative, Scenes

Craft tips for authors: April 12, 2023

Posted on April 12, 2023 at 11:40 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft advice to offer. Here are the ones that we thought were...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Fantasy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Plot / narrative, Setting, Thriller, Writing advice

Craft tips for authors: March 28, 2023

Posted on March 28, 2023 at 3:00 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...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Plot / narrative, Writing advice

Three-dimensional characters and three-act stories

Posted on March 3, 2023 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Yes, we waited until March 3 — or 3/3 — to share two posts that involve the number three. (If...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: C.S. Lakin / Live Write Thrive, Characters, Plot / narrative, Writer Unboxed, Writing advice

How to clearly organize third-person points of view in a novel

Posted on February 13, 2023 at 8:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Variety is the spice of life — that's true of novels with multiple points of view. You don't want them...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Plot / narrative, Writer Unboxed, Writing advice

A novel's premise is more than just a situation

Posted on February 9, 2023 at 11:04 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There are tons of words that take on more precise meaning when you use them in a certain professional field....

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Tagged As: C.S. Lakin / Live Write Thrive, Characters, Plot / narrative, Writing advice

Three videos on the art of pacing

Posted on January 19, 2023 at 8:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Desmond Hall is back with an all-pacing edition of Desmond's Drops. The three video segments each address a technique that...

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Tagged As: Plot / narrative, Writer Unboxed, Writing advice

Keep your story's stakes front and center in these three moments

Posted on January 15, 2023 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writers have a reputation for, shall we say, not exactly coddling their characters. And Kathryn Craft's post for Writer Unboxed...

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Tagged As: Plot / narrative, Writer Unboxed, Writing advice

How authors can apply chaos theory to their fiction writing

Posted on January 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

For some of us, our love of reading and writing was rivaled only by our hatred of math. (Or is...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Plot / narrative, Writer Unboxed