There are a lot of revision checklists and guides out there. Just typing the words into a search engine will yield plenty of people with opinions about what you should and shouldn’t cut–and there are a ton of variables. Genre conventions, audience expectations, and use of voice are just a few items that can alter … More Free Content Outline/Revision Worksheet!
Maybe it’s all the green from St. Patrick’s Day yesterday, or maybe I’m just tired of being in the frozen North where green things don’t really show up until mid-April, but today, plants are taking over the blog. Consider this one of those world-building/plotting mash-ups to give you a fresh perspective as you take on … More Five Fun Ways To Use Plants in Your Fiction
You’ve now finished your first draft–or you’re getting pretty close to it! Or maybe you’re right in the middle, deep in the trenches, excited that you finished NaNoWriMo or hit your personal deadlines, but with no idea that after fifty thousand words the novel would just. Keep. GOING. WHEN WILL IT EVER BE DONE? In any … More 6 Fundamental Questions to Refine First Draft World-Building
When you bring up world-building, one of the first things that comes up is language. People ask if you’ve made up your own language, or if you’re going to, or how you should do it. Now, if you want to make up languages, go ahead! I’m not stopping you. There’s a lot of fun to … More 3 Easy Tips to Use Dialect in Writing and World-Building
1.) World–building must serve the story or it’s only window-dressing. I love world-building. That’s one reason I wrote a textbook and workbook about it. But if the world-building has no connection to the story, then why bother? Use the cool things you make up to create issues and conflict in your plot. Make sure … More 5 Essential Tips For World-Building
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