Every scene in your story should be doing something. #WritingTips #AuthorTips

The moments that make you think, "I could never write that," #WritingTips #AuthorTips

Don't tell me the moon is shining! #WritingTips #AuthorTips #WritingCommunity

Don't Always Show Us The Shark! #WritingTips #AuthorTips #WritingCommunity

What To Do After First Draft? #WritingTips #AuthorTips #WritingCommunity

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How To Become A Better Writer For Real Though. People always ask how they can become a better writer, and the answer is usually less exciting than they expect: write every single day. I'm not saying ...

If your stories pacing is slow, remember this! #WritingTips #AuthorTips #WritingCommunity

I Wish Someone Told Me This Earlier Toni Morrison’s advice for writers is simple but something a lot of us struggle with: write the story you actually want to write. For a long time, I found myself tr...

Cormac McCarthy was known for his stripped-down approach to writing: use only the punctuation you truly need. Every extra mark on the page can interrupt the reader’s immersion, and especially when it ...

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People always get this backwards. Remember falling in love? It wasn't with a plot, it was with a person! One of Stephen King's best pieces of writing advice is to start with characters, not plot. A st...

One word is making you worse and you know what it is? It's "adverbs," One of the most common pieces of writing advice is to cut unnecessary adverbs, and for good reason. Instead of telling the reader ...

Everyone has 5 minutes a day, even you! Write every single day. This is one of the most common pieces of advice you will hear from writers, and there is a reason it gets repeated so often. Stephen Kin...

You're failing because you aren't doing this enough If you want to be a writer, you have to read. Stephen King has said that if you don't have time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to wri...

Don't write the parts of the story your readers are going to skip. You don't need to show us the bus ride between two important scenes just because your characters had to physically travel there. Skip...

Your characters should reveal themselves through what they do, not what you tell the reader they feel. One of the most powerful things you can do as a writer is let a character’s actions carry the mea...

Stop revising a book you haven't even finished writing yet. You need to finish the first draft before you start tearing it apart and revising everything. If you know a chapter is going to be around 4,...

Language shapes the way we see reality, and the words your characters use can tell us so much about who they are. Word choice is incredibly important when you're trying to create grounded, believable ...

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Every person is fascinating. So every one of your characters should be fascinating too, even the minor characters who only show up for one scene. Don't treat those characters like they're just there t...

High Level writing stuff being talking about here in a pretty short clip. Essentially the basis of this tip is that the chapters need to work cohesively and together to propel the story to its end. Th...

Your story needs to have drama in it. That initially means that nobody should be agreeing with eachother on anything and that means saying no constantly. Everything in your story needs some kind of dr...

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Every Choice Should Preserve the illusion of your story. All your pacing, all your dialogue, action, setting all should be used by design to work together. Every device should work to create the illus...

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The most important part for writing and the goal you should be seeking out is keeping the fictional daydream alive for the reader. That's how your story should read and what you should strive for beca...

If you are chasing perfection in your writing your missing the point entrely. The human element is crucial for creating the art of it and if you're argument is that it does not then writing is def not...