Story Elements: Give Them Purpose
For a strong story pace, we need to ensure every element has purpose. How can we do that? How can we know if a scene or sentence is pointless?
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How Can Writers Pay It Forward?
As we’ve journeyed through the writing learning curve, we’ve been helped by others. How can we pay that assistance forward to help other writers?
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Do Your Stories Have Deeper Meanings?
A joke about authors vs. English teachers has circulated online for years. What can it teach us about how readers interpret our story?
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Need Advice from an Editor?
As we go through the editing process, we might have questions we wish we could ask a professional editor. How can we get our question answered?
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Discovering What Matters: Editing and Your Life
What does the moving process have in common with the editing process? Both make us prioritize, purge, and question what matters.
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What Do the Calls for Diversity Mean for Our Writing?
A recent controversy in the writing world might make us wonder: What do the calls for better handling of diversity and inclusion mean for our writing and story ideas?
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Writing Community: There’s Safety in Numbers
The writing community played a huge role in the RWA implosion, so let’s see what we can learn about moving forward with a stronger writing community.
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How Do We Measure the “Value” of Fiction?
At our lowest, we might question what makes dealing with all the struggles of writing worth it. How can we measure the value of fiction?
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What Can Our Reading Choices Tell Us about Our Writing?
With our busy lives, we might feel we don’t have time to read, but reading is important for writers—and we might learn how to add appeal to our stories.
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Professional Beta Readers: What to Expect — Guest: CeCe Downs
If the usual beta-reading exchange doesn’t work for us, would a professional professional beta reader be good? What should we look for?
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