Have you ever read or watched The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings and thought, “Wow, the man who penned this was a true master at his craft”? Maybe you’ve wondered how you can write like J.R.R. Tolkien: make scenes memorable, characters engaging, and weave themes naturally through your stories. If you’ve asked these […]
Have you ever poured your heart and soul into writing a scene, spent hours polishing it to perfection, and then sent it off to a group of readers who immediately skim that section? Yeah, me too. It’s easy to play it off and blame it on the “writer brain” which always seems to get attached […]
You and I aren’t there yet. “There” may look different for both of us. You may want to be an author someday or work in the writing industry. Or you may just want to finally finish a draft or finally get some positive feedback. You’ve been working hard, but you feel like you haven’t made […]
Writing romance is one of those big writing topics that everyone talks about. And yet actually writing it well isn’t so easy. If writing Jane Austen-worthy romance and relationships that leave fandoms squealing about it for years was easy, everyone would be doing it. And writing strong romantic relationships is so much more than just […]
You’re wiped out and feel like you could rip out your hair. Yes, you finished the first draft, but now you’ve come to the ginormous task of editing. Do you want to just run away? Today, I want to talk to you about how you can survive the editing process, whether you’re a fiction or […]
If anyone has ever said to you, “writing is easy,” I can bet without a doubt that you quickly and clearly corrected them. Writing is not easy. Just like life is not easy and trusting is not easy and being a Christian is not easy. Writing a twenty-five thousand-word outline is not easy. Writing a […]
You can’t have a writing career if you don’t first have an audience of readers. That’s why every serious young writer will eventually begin asking how they can work on building that platform of engaged readers who want to buy books from them. If you fall into this camp, you’ve come to the right place! […]
To have a solid story, your writing has to be full of all kinds of characters—from protagonists to quirky side characters to the love interest to the villain. But one character specifically is missing from a lot of modern writing—a character that is vitally important to your story and your impact on readers. Who is […]
