Why might a novel writer choose to use dialect? It’s simple. A novelist may use dialect when they want voice to do story work that plain [ read more...]
Why is setting important? Most manuscripts with flat characters and wobbly plots have the same hidden problem: the setting is interchangeable. If you can lift your [ read more...]
When writers wonder why is dialogue important in a narrative, I tell them the blunt version: dialogue is your fastest delivery system for character, conflict, and [ read more...]
Genre matters for storytelling because it is the set of promises you are making before the reader even reaches page one, and those promises control attention, [ read more...]
Why do we write stories? For many, a story is the most reliable way to move a reader from “interesting” to “I have to keep going,” [ read more...]
Most flashbacks fail for one boring reason: the present-tense story has not earned them yet. So why do authors use flashbacks? It has less to do [ read more...]
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