If you’re a creative writer, you’ve probably wondered what the best remote writing jobs might be. Still, you want to make an effort to...

Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist. She published her first work Near to the Wild Heart when she was 23. The novel...

There seems to be a lot of debate recently about whether or not writers should be using a thesaurus to support their projects. On the one...

A solid antagonist who can pressure the protagonist to take action and make difficult choices is central to most if not all, good...

Crash by J.G. Ballard. You’d be hard-pressed to find a novel as sexually perverse as this one. The story is about a man who discovers a...

Some writers will often wonder and sometimes reach out to people in the writing community to ask if they should be editing during the...

The Peregrine by J.A. Baker is one of those rare novels that can never fully be captured or presented by words that exist outside of the...

You’ve no doubt heard someone say that you should be writing books or short stories that are simple before you attempt something more...

The Butterfly Lampshade is about a young woman who questions her relationship with reality when her mother suffers a psychotic break. She...

Henry Chinaski is a drunken derelict, the literary alter ego of Charles Bukowski himself. The story's plot is autobiographical; the...

Every story must have a reason for being written. That is what a theme is. Many themes have emerged in contemporary literature, and...

A good setting is a core trait of a strong work of fiction. There are many ways to approach setting, and some writers are more inclined...

Dialogue is what breathes life into fiction. It gives your story a soul. Without it, you wouldn’t have much. This is why it’s important...

When you accomplish what so few people do, which is to write and edit a book, you’ll likely start to wonder what’s next. Well, it’s a...

When I started writing and reading a lot more, one thing I wanted to know was how to improve vocabulary. I was reading all sorts of books...

It can be hard to pinpoint what makes description “work” for the reader. It can be said for some of them that it’s a matter of having it...