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Helping Writers Become Authors

Aug 29, 2022

Here are seven tips for how to add complexity to your story without crossing the line into unwanted complications.


Aug 22, 2022

You want your story to be complex, not complicated. Is your story too complicated? Here are nine important things to think about.


Apr 11, 2022

Ask these important questions to make sure the passage of time in a story is strengthening rather than weakening its narrative power.


Mar 28, 2022

Here are six important considerations to keep in mind when amping up your story's most important scenes--its set-piece scenes.


Jan 31, 2022

There’s nothing incorrect in using confrontation to create conflict in fiction. But to understand conflict as only confrontation is too narrow a definition.