Writing Lessons & Advice: Info Dumps
How does a prepared food dish end up less enjoyable than it could be, if not ruined altogether? Too much flavor could have been used or...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Writing with AI
NANOWRIMO 2024 created waves last month by attempting to voice a neutral stance on the use of writing with artificial intelligence (AI). ...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Characters
KISS has an odd song from the eighties called “ A World Without Heroes ”. Society would be quite a lawless, hopeless place without them,...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Voice
A common positive critique I’ve gotten on my Reedsy stories is having a strong voice, so I thought I’d explore that idea as a lesson. I’m...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Show-and-Tell
To the average Joe, the term show-and-tell might conjure up memories from early school days when they or classmates brought special items...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Pantsers vs. Plotters
Writers go by many identities: authors, bloggers, journalists, essayists, novelists, poets, critics, playwrights...but a couple less...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Four Big Gift Ideas for Writers
Is there a writer in your life? What kind of gifts would be liked by one gifted with an affinity for words? Here are recommendations from...
Writing Lessons & Advice: National Novel Writing Month
As established in a previous lesson , fifty thousand words is a general minimum for a novel. Believe it or not, many writing enthusiasts...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Fanfiction
Today’s lesson is loosely based on a Twitter post... The fuller context of this remark is within a growing battle between human- and...
Writing Lessons & Advice: Blogging
Blog, blogging, blogger...these are commonplace words that have gained traction in society within the last twenty to thirty years. As...
