How Can We Learn and Improve Our Writing Skills?
Want to improve your writing? Here are the strengths and weaknesses of 5 common ways to learn and improve our writing craft.
Pin ItChapter Breaks & Titles: What Are Our Options?
For all the writing advice in the world, there’s comparatively little about chapters specifically, such as if or how we should title them.
Pin ItSentence Flow: Fixing Choppy Writing
If our sentences don’t have a good flow from one to the next, our writing can feel choppy. But what causes choppy writing and how can we fix it?
Pin It4 Tips for Creating the Right Impression of Our Characters
Last time, we discussed how to introduce our characters. Now, here are 4 tips for ensuring we’re giving readers the right impressions of our characters.
Pin ItMaking a Good First Impression with Our Characters
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re exploring how to introduce our characters to readers.
Pin ItHow Should We Format Non-Verbal Communication?
If our story includes telepathy or text messages and the like, what are some of our formatting options for non-verbal communication passages?
Pin ItWhat’s the Point of Foreshadowing?
To increase reader satisfaction, we want to give our story meaning. How can we use foreshadowing to make our story feel purposeful and meaningful?
Pin ItWord Choice: What Does It Mean for Our Writing?
We’ve discussed POV and voice, but what does the term “word choice” mean, how does it affect our writing, and what goes into choosing the right words?
Pin ItWhat Do Readers Want from a Story’s POV?
Our story is—in many respects—what our story’s POV tells readers it is. So what do we want readers to get out of our story and chosen POV?
Pin ItHow Does Our Character’s POV Affect Our Story?
Why is POV so important to understand? The better we understand the power of our character’s POV, the stronger we can make our characters and our story.
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