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For those who are not familiar with "The Princess Bride," it is a good movie complete with plenty of fight scenes, a bit of romance, and everything you'd want in ...

When you write a story, one of the first things you want to do is to use a word other than "said." After all, said is a boring word. It ...

There are a lot of people who think that titles really don't matter. It's almost as if they think the title and the story exist in two different worlds. So ...

One of the reasons why writers don't want to extensively edit their work because it's SO HARD. I'm serious. Some editing, for me, is easy to do, but to rewrite? ...

Okay, I was getting really hung up on this at first. I mean, I had this fabulous idea for a novel, yet it took me months to write a chapter. ...

Too often, as story writers, we don't write. Instead, we procrastinate using in some very creative ways. "Before we can write," we tell ourselves, "we have to come up with ...

The most common question I get as a reviewer of fiction isn't about whether I can review work. Nor is it about grammar, description, or any other common writing problems. ...

One time, I emailed a chapter of my story, FREAK to another writer. She looked at it, and this was her response: "It was a good boring chapter." Boring??? I ...

Not a lot of credit is given to where a chapter ends and begins actually, though it is an art. For instance, a couple of months I was writing something ...

I was reading an earlier version of my story the other day and it was SO BAD. I was literally cringing in my seat as I read it because it ...

Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, you can write these horribly awful soppy scenes. Now, if you're lucky, then it's just narrative and you can cut it out and ...

A cliffhanger is basically a story that ends (or stops) in an abrupt manner. It came after that absolutely wonderful plot twist where our main character is hanging off a ...

For all those who don't know, I've been writing this novel called FREAK about five years. Obsessed? Nah... In any case, it deals with societal issues. What can I say? ...

So, you have this really cool place and you want to describe it. Or, alternatively, you have this really boring place and you feel obligated to describe it, but for ...

I don't know... some writing tips make me scratch my head in wonder. I forget where this came from, but basically, the person writing it said that there were three ...