Astonishers. Gaspers. Screamers. What your exclamation point addiction or avoidance says about you.

It’s the last in our three-week series on scene and structure the Dwight Swain way. Let’s go. Like we said in the first week,...

Exposition. It’s a beast. And I never have a problem with it as a writer until I’m writing middle grade fiction. This podcast we’re...

This week we’re going to give a quick rundown of the pros and cons of present and past tense. For some books, you just...