by Ali | Feb 14, 2022 | Motivation
Seven Things to Do When You Feel Like Giving Up on Writing This post was originally published in February 2017 and updated in February 2022. Should you just stop writing? Maybe it feels like it’s taking up a lot of your time and energy, and you’re not...
by Ali | Feb 7, 2022 | Motivation
How to Be a More Disciplined Writer This post was first published in November 2017 and updated in February 2022. While some people like to imagine writers working in bursts of frenzied inspiration, the reality doesn’t generally look like that. There might be wonderful...
by Ali | Jan 31, 2022 | Editing
Getting Apostrophes Right: From the Easy to the Tricky Cases This post was first published in November 2016 and updated in January 2022. I think it’s a safe bet that you’ve come across the apostrophe before. (If not … there are two in the previous sentence.) But...
by Ali | Jan 17, 2022 | Fiction
Split Narratives: Dividing Your Story Between Two or More Narrators This post was originally published in June 2015 and updated in January 2022. There are several perfectly good ways to structure a story in terms of viewpoint, but (probably) the more common ones are:...
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by Ali | Jan 11, 2022 | Fiction
Character Flaws: Why They’re So Important to Your Story [With Examples] Maybe you’ve heard that your characters “should” have flaws. Or maybe you’ve come across terms like “tragic flaw” or “fatal flaw” in literature. So what exactly is a character flaw … and...
