A compelling character rarely starts with a clever quirk. In my experience, what makes a compelling character is friction. It is the kind that presses on [ read more...]
Most arguments about what makes a book a novel start in the wrong place, such as the word count. In publishing, a novel is a piece [ read more...]
Most bad story problems come from one mistake: you lose control of reader expectations, then you keep writing as if they stayed. What makes a bad [ read more...]
You already know exaggeration is funny and dramatic, but what literary device is exaggeration? Well, it has a name you can use on purpose: hyperbole. When [ read more...]
Most answers to “What is women’s literature?” start in the wrong place, because they start with labels instead of readership. Women’s literature, as writers and publishers [ read more...]
What is women’s fiction? Calling a book women’s fiction is a promise to the reader that the story will track a woman’s interior life as seriously [ read more...]
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