Dragons and Spaceships

Showing the reader your world's wonderful details without boring them is as tricky as rolling a nat 20 when it's the only thing that will save your party. But you...

I wrote 2.5 million words of fiction before publishing a single book. That's like the Lord of the Rings trilogy five times over. ^^ How do you know you wrote...

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a writer in possession of a story idea will clean their entire house to avoid writing. But not even a looming deadline can...

Deadpool and Wolverine has something in common with cheesy Hallmark movies. Romance novels and buddy comedies share it too, so does that hero and villain you like to ship. All the best...

Do you ever reread your dialogue and think holy crap, I'm so bored? Or why do all my characters sound the same? Writing catchy dialogue is an art form unto...

I did, hi (Eva here). You've probably suffered from it too. Worldbuilding Disease inflicts most fantasy and sci-fi writers. For some, it becomes a chronic condition that prevents them from...

One of the cardinal rules of fiction is to avoid info dumps like the brown lumps at the dog park. But I'm here to tell you to break the rules like...

After years of chatting with some of our thousands of customers and attending local writer events, I've realized there are four common myths that many aspiring authors buy into--and that...