Stop working. Read, meet up with some friends or go for a drink. In this day and age we are seeing some of the greatest…
Like the dog I am petting in this blog’s featured image, your readers are emotional creatures. Creative writing is entirely driven from generating emotional connections…
This month ScifiAndScary.com offered me the opportunity to be a guest blogger and discuss the horror genre. Fits with the theme of Halloween. With this…
Welcome to the final part of the 3 part miniseries titled Want to Write a Fiction Novel? In the first post, we looked at creating…
In the previous post, we looked at the premise of a novel. This is a very important step, it doesn’t take a lot of time to…
This year I had the opportunity to go to When Words Collide in Calgary, Alberta. For those that do not know, it is a yearly…
So you’ve decided that you want to write a book, congratulations! That’s a big commitment. Do you already know what your book is about? If…
For this month’s guest author, I’d like to welcome Christa Wojciechowski, a fellow horror/thriller writer who focuses on novellas. Her work can be seen in…
A name in a story is exceptionally important considering when writing, we are only working with words. Defining a name for you character is a…