This week I saw something along the lines of the following statement posted in an author group on Facebook: “I'm almost…
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and…
I recently announced the launch of my latest program, Writer’s Craft Academy INTENSIVE (WCAI), and it's been exciting to see…
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and…
Regardless of whether you’re writing a novel, a how-to book, or a helpful blog post, you’ll almost certainly need to…
Beta readers are an integral part of the revision process for most books in both the fiction and non-fiction fields.…
Meeting self-imposed deadlines is challenging for most aspiring authors. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, especially given established and hugely…
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and…
Using “active voice” is one of the easiest ways to improve the quality of your writing. Sentences written in active…
It’s vitally important that authors know how to craft great scenes because scenes are the basic building block of narrative…
In part 3 of this series, we examined the character depth spectrum, which has well-rounded characters on one end and flat…
In Part 1 of this How to Create Charismatic Characters blog series, we discussed assigning physical attributes to the characters we…