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Intro As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an artist along with a writer, and being able to do my own artwork has proven to be a very useful—and fun—skill to have, especially when paired with my writing. I’m fortunate enough to have an advantage that a lot of writers don’t have, as I don’t necessarily have…
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Intro Unless you’re writing something that takes place in the real world, with absolutely no made-up locations added to it, you’re going to have to do a bit of worldbuilding. Whether your story’s set in the modern world in a made-up town, or on a totally different planet, it’s important to have at least a…
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Intro I’m just going to go right out and say that I love writing action scenes. Whether they’re fight scenes, chase scenes, or anything in between, they’ve always been one of my favorite things to write. They pretty much guarantee excitement and also often serve as a great place to show how characters act under…
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Intro One of the most common writing questions I see online is how to write a character who is a different gender from you—especially a main character. And I think it’s great that people are trying to be more conscious and respectful when it comes to writing characters who aren’t the same gender as them,…
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Intro If you’re a writer on social media, you’ve probably seen all sorts of accounts posting writing advice pretty much daily, telling you the many dos and don’ts of this particular creative pursuit. Most of these are pretty common, repeated over and over again by multiple different accounts, but others are less so. Today, I’m…
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Intro There’s lots of writing software out there, some free, some paid for, and some that are somewhere in between. Some are packed with a million different features that can help you super customize your workflow and let you have everything you need all in one place, while others are more simple and less finicky,…