If your dialogue sounds flat or amateurish, you could be making simple newbie mistakes in your punctuation.
A massive life change can derail your writing goals. Here are five easy ways to maintain your practice that don't involve just pushing through.
Does the thought of adding words to your WIP make you feel like a lead weight is sitting on your chest? Learn more about writer burnout, and read seven ways to fix it so you can get writing again.
I so understand the struggles around sharing your writing with others. Here are a few strategies to make the process less anxiety-inducing.
If participating in NaNoWriMo is no longer on your to-do list for *reasons*, here are alternative activities you can add to your calendar instead.
Out of the top-ten list of issues I most frequently identify in a manuscript assessment, head-hopping hovers in the first three. Let's take a look at it (yes, one more time for y'all in the back) and explore reasons why it's not the best POV choice for a book.
What's a manuscript assessment, and what does it do? Also called a manuscript critique or evaluation, learn more about this special kind of edit, how it's different from a developmental edit, and ways it can improve your book.
Straight from an agent session at the Women in Publishing conference, here are some mistakes that could cause an agent to reject your manuscript before they even read past the first page.
How do you separate the Fairy Godpeople from the Big Bad Wolves in the editing pack? Here are four "tests" you can use to find the right editor for your book and how to determine if a potential editor passes them.
Understanding the many roles an editor can play in your publishing journey is important so you don't waste your time and money barking up the wrong editing tree. Here's a primer on the different levels of editing and how you can decide which one your book needs.
