10 Best Character Name Generator Tools
Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, Sherlock Holmes: These are just a few examples of great, memorable character names. A strong name can start your character off on the right foot, but coming up with great character names can be surprisingly difficult. You want names that...
How to Craft Realistic Dialogue: Six Dos (and Two Don’ts) for Making Your Dialogue Sound Genuine
If you’re a fiction writer, writing dialogue is a lot like death and taxes. It’s inevitable—and it can be really difficult, if you’re not prepared to handle it. Because humans are such social and communicative creatures, the way your fictional characters talk to...
How to Write a Compelling Dream Sequence: The Dos and Don’ts of Writing Dream Scenes
Much of the challenge of fiction writing comes down to the inherent difficulty of rendering situations realistically using only words. And while it can be difficult enough to conjure real-world scenarios in a believable fashion, the task can get exponentially harder...
10 Tips for Writing a Great Story
Whether you’re a novice writer or a published author, crafting a story can be as hard as solving a math problem that you’ve never encountered before. (And if you’re as bad at math as I am, that’s hard.) But you’re not alone. Even famous writers struggle to write their...
3 Killer Plot Twists in Fiction: And How They Blow Our Minds
If you’ve had any exposure to crime fiction—or the work of director M. Night Shyamalan—you probably have at least a passing familiarity with twists in fiction. A plot twist is a literary device that introduces some new element into a work of fiction that either...
If you only had 21 days left to live, what would you want to accomplish before you go?
Multi-published author and journalist shares the step-by-step process to write nonfiction book like a pro.
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Mismanaged and overlooked by command, a group of soldiers must fight to survive in Afghanistan.
