Learning Story Beats Through Audiobooks

I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks lately, and through listening I’ve come to a better understanding of story beats. In reading, because it takes me so long or because I’m just not paying attention to the length of the story or where I’m at, I struggle to notice similarities in stories regarding story...

Preptober!!

Today is the first day of October, and for those of us who are doing NaNoWriMo, that means the start of Preptober! You may be wondering what Preptober is, because you've never heard of it before. I hadn't heard of it until last year either. Preptober is the month before NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month,...

Outlining: Why, How, and My Method

There are three different types of writers, the plotters, the plansters, and the pantsers. Each one writes theirs stories in a different way. Plotters plot out their story before they start writing, so they have a clear path they can take when working through their novel. Pantsers have no plan, they write by the seat...

What Style Is Best? Finding The One That Fits Your Story

When you come of with a story idea, there's always that moment when you go, wait, how am I going to tell this story? Maybe you have a plot, or characters, but so far you've just been envisioning it as a movie in your mind, and are uncertain of how it should all go down...

How To Get Faster At Writing

For a while now, I've been working on getting faster at writing, and I've drastically improved. I've gone from struggling to write 500 words an hour, to being able to write 1000 words in half and hour, all in the matter of a few months. How did I get faster at writing? Well, there are...

A Good Ending: How Do You Do It?

Every writer loves typing those two amazing words. The End. It's so satisfying to write those two words after months or even years of laboring over manuscript. But how do you know your ending is a good one? Today, I'll be talking about how to write a good, satisfying ending. A Few Things To Keep In...