"Trust the reader." It's great advice. I've also heard it as "Let the reader do some of the work." These comments and others like them...

Note: PM me if you want to know the contest and its associated workshop that I am hereby boycotting. I have had an awful experience with...

I came across the phrase, "Save the Cat," in a blog on how to salvage a manuscript. It's a plot development technique. I could tell that...

I began to hear the most frequently-asked question right away: “Are your characters based on anyone you know?” Friends who received...

As we all know, a title is the first element we see of a written work. A title determines how the reader approaches it, determining...