Six tips on surviving and succeeding during National Novel Writing Month.

Convincing your reader to see the character you’ve spent years thinking about is not as easy as it sounds. Despite how easy it is to list...

I was a heavy user of cliches in my writing. It was so easy to use a saying everyone knew to get a point across and move on, but it’s...

A handful of the members in my Writing Group just finished their first drafts and I'm super proud of them! Finishing a novel is the first...

In the five years of hosting my writing group, these are general rules we have about feedback.

Your quick guide to understanding dialogue formatting.

Whether or not you’re in a writing group, I guarantee you’ve heard the phrase “show don’t tell.” Some people will tell you to show...

How to locate passive voice in your writing and change it to active.

This will be the easiest thing you can do to elevate your writing: Deleting filler words. A filler word is any unnecessary word that...

Know when to use commas when writing with conjunctions.