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Evaluate Your Story With A Reverse Outline

Pansters, please don’t abandon this post before you give it a chance. I promise I’m not here to ...

How to Write Compelling and Balanced Backstory

It’s not an overstatement to say that backstory can make or break your book. Too much, and your re...

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language

Dialogue is a great tool to establish relationships between your characters and deepen emotional con...

A Perfectionist’s Guide to a Crappy First Draft

Nanowrimo: A Perfectionist's Guide to Crappy First Drafts. Hi NanoWriMo-ers and non-NaNo-ers. I was...

How to Escape the Show, Don’t Tell Trap

You read it again and again, repeating in your mind: I thought I was showing. This looks like showin...

Soggy Middle Troubleshooting

Last weekend at the Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival, I spoke with several writers who have gotten s...

Essentials for Writers: Loglines

In 2022, we started asking for loglines as part of the submission process for the RevPit Annual Cont...


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