Types of Writers
It’s back to school time and I was thinking about that cafeteria map from Mean Girls and how it sort of relates to writing. Not the whole labeled cliques thing because we’re all one big, wordy family, but just that there are different types of writers. Everyone’s got a different way of writing and sometimes […]
Guest Post: Beginnings, Middles and Ends
Today I have the pleasure of sharing a great writer’s guest post on dramatic structure. We agreed to swap posts and you can read mine on the creative process here. Tiana Bodine was kind enough to share her wonderful thoughts on story structure and I hope you find it as insightful as I did: One […]
Hanging On
Have you ever been reading a story, not really completely drawn in but the chapter endings are cleverly cliffhanged that you can’t seem to put it down? That is excellent planning, my friend. A rousing bit of conflict cropping up from nowhere to snag your attention and keep your eyes planted on the page. Ideally […]
7 Steps to World Building
There’s an aspect of writing that takes place behind the scenes, something the reader must never notice and yet always be aware of. What is it? The world you have constructed. For those of us writing a narrative that takes place outside of the current time and status of Earth, there is significant research and […]





