short story writing
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Write Better, Right Now: Enhancing Your Themes and Thematic Statement
While themes and thematic statements crop up throughout our stories, we can consciously weave them into our work to drive… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Finding Your Story’s Themes
Like thematic statements, themes aren’t necessary, though readers may find themes in your work you did not intend. To help… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Finding Your Story’s Thematic Statement
The easest way to find your story’s thematic statement is by considering what you want to do with your story.… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Themes and Thematic Statements
Multiple thematic statements will cause a lot of confusion both for you as a writer and for readers trying to… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Action
Using descriptive writing to show the characters’ movements through the story, setting, and the world, we’re giving our readers an… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Writing to World Build
Descriptive world building is the easiest way to fall into a hole of describing information and moments not important or… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Descriptive Writing in Dialogue
Writers can show a whole world, describe conflict, and trick the reader just by fine-tuning a character’s voice to make… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: What is Descriptive Writing?
Descriptive writing is often stated as show don’t tell. But that’s kind of wrong, descriptive writing does involve telling. Writers… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Inner Character Voice
Nondialogue voice or your character’s inner voice is usually done in a way that aligns with how the character speaks… Read More
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Write Better, Right Now: Dialogue as Exposition
Using character voice as exposition may seem like a simple technique, but more often than not, writers do this in… Read More
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