What better way to start a New Year than to set writing goals! This could be the year you start writing. Or the year you finish your manuscript, or the year that you get published. Whatever your ambitions, writing and editing an entire novel can be a daunting task. The best way to complete your […]

You probably have heard about plotters vs. pantsers when it comes to how to plot. But in case you haven’t, let my quickly recap. Plotters are writers that outline the entire story before writing a single word. Pantsers are the opposite. They write without an outline or by the seat of their pants (hence the […]

Writing economically isn’t about money. I am not about to pull you back to the depths of your high school economics class here. When I refer to writing economically it means enhancing your writing so every scene pulls its weight in more than one way. Make a sentence describe the setting and enhance character development […]