For your story to come to life on the page, introduce your readers to the five senses: sight, hearing, smell,…
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Should I Join a Writer’s Group?
A question I often get asked from other writers is, “Should I join a writer’s group?” My answer is always…
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Creating Tension for your Readers
When writing fiction, tension is critical for reader engagement. As a writer, we want our readers to ‘not want to…
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Creating a Setting
By Joe Moore You’ve got an idea for a story, maybe even a book-length project. You’ve developed a clever plot…
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Don’t Muddle your Story
After you’ve written your first (or second or third) draft, it’s time to go through your manuscript and cut out…
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Interrogation Techniques: Part Two Non-Verbal Cues
In Interrogation Techniques part one, I discussed verbal cues and how to use them to detect lies from a perpetrator.…
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Interrogation Techniques: Verbal Cues
Interrogations can be difficult to write. Too many writers get this wrong. This is usually due to the fact many…
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Head Hopping
One of the most difficult concepts for aspiring authors occurs when you bounce around from one character’s perspective to another,…
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Targeting Enemy Words
Writers are notorious for their love of words. Because of this, we have a hard time targeting certain words as…
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Show Don’t Tell
What Does “Show, Don’t Tell” Mean? Good writing tends to draw an image in the reader’s mind instead of just…
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