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Bending Language: The Art of Making Every Word Serve Your Story in Nonfiction

Want your nonfiction to truly resonate? This post dives into the art of intentional word choice—making language bend to your story. Discover how to evoke emotion, paint with all five senses, and edit for powerful, seemingly effortless prose.

Bending Language: The Art of Making Every Word Serve Your Story in Nonfiction

Celebrating Your Successes as a Writer

Celebrating writing successes helps beat self-doubt, boosts motivation, and builds confidence. Here’s how to do it and why.

Celebrating Your Successes as a Writer

Format Your Manuscript for Submission

You need more than writing chops to make a good first impression on any publisher: you need to demonstrate a little understanding of standard manuscript formatting requirements common across the publishing industry.As a publisher receiving and reviewing submissions from aspiring authors, it’s shocking how few seem to read our manuscript submission formatting requirements. Or if

Format Your Manuscript for Submission

Writing Motivation: 12 Tips to Stay Focused

Unlock your writing motivation and unleash your creativity. Explore these 12 tips to stay inspired and productive.

Writing Motivation: 12 Tips to Stay Focused

The Five Major Plot Points for Writers

Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. But how do you make that middle part compelling?

The Five Major Plot Points for Writers

Beyond Time and Place: Mastering Setting for Richer Storytelling

How do you make the most of setting in your storytelling? Here are ten key aspects to consider beyond where and when events take place.

Beyond Time and Place: Mastering Setting for Richer Storytelling

Beyond POV for Writers: Write for One Person Not A Crowd

Going beyond POV for writers. When you’re writing, it’s better to write for one person instead of a large audience. Here’s why.

Beyond POV for Writers: Write for One Person Not A Crowd

7 Elements of Setting for Writers

Time, place, mood, and social and cultural context are important elements of setting for writers. How about setting as character?

7 Elements of Setting for Writers

Showing Vs. Telling: When To Show and When to Tell

Showing vs. telling is one of the most common pieces of advice a writer will hear. It’s heard so often that one might think that telling instead of showing is just bad writing. But not so fast! Telling has its place, just like anything in life. The question is when do we show and when do we tell?

In this post, you’ll discover the delicate balance between showing and telling in writing, explore when to evoke vivid imagery and when to convey information concisely. You’ll learn how to engage readers with immersive storytelling techniques while avoiding unnecessary details. Find out when telling is more efficient than showing, and master the art of making this important editorial choice.

Showing Vs. Telling: When To Show and When to Tell

Unveiling the Art of Show & Tell in Writing

Do you want to take your writing to the next level with a perfect balance of showing and telling? Look no further! Marie Beswick-Arthur and Amie McCracken have the solution to enhance your storytelling with a harmonious blend of descriptive details and narrative clarity. Get ready to master the art of immersive and captivating writing.

Unveiling the Art of Show & Tell in Writing

Putting Off Procrastination

How do you put off procrastination? Here are six tips to help you sit down and get that book done.

Putting Off Procrastination

How AI Content Creation and Detection Will Impact Writers

AI-Generated Content could be a boon or bust for content creators and writers. Jon Gillham outlines the conversation.

How AI Content Creation and Detection Will Impact Writers

6 Tools For Your Writing Journey

There are a lot of tools for writers available but which ones are worth buying?

6 Tools For Your Writing Journey

Plagiarism Problems and How to Minimize Risk

Two cases, two author disputes, what they tell us about plagiarism and copyright, and what it means for authors.

Plagiarism Problems and How to Minimize Risk

Point of View and Narrator’s Psychological Distance, with Amie McCracken

Point of view in a story can make or break the experience for a reader. Amie McCracken talks to us about why it matters.

Point of View and Narrator’s Psychological Distance, with Amie McCracken

How the Neuroscience of Narrative Can Improve Your Writing

We think in story. Author Lisa Cron explains how the neuroscience of narrative can help improve your writing.

How the Neuroscience of Narrative Can Improve Your Writing

Why Write a Book?

The idea of writing a book is a whole lot sexier than planting your butt on a chair and pounding it out. Why write a book? Good question.

Why Write a Book?

How to Craft a Good Story

Knowing how to craft a good story is a skill every author needs, whether they’re writing fiction or nonfiction.

How to Craft a Good Story

How to Outline Your Nonfiction Book

How do you outline your nonfiction book so you end up writing in a way that will keep your reader engaged?

How to Outline Your Nonfiction Book

The Top 7 Mistakes Writers Make (and what to do instead)

We’ve put together this list of the top seven mistakes writers make because, well, if you can avoid these common mistakes, you’ll be a better writer.

The Top 7 Mistakes Writers Make (and what to do instead)

Plotter or Pantser? What’s the Best Way to Write?

What’s the best way to write? Plotter or pantser? In this post, we’re looking at one author’s process: romance author Brenda Margriet.

Plotter or Pantser? What’s the Best Way to Write?

How to Choose Your Beta Reader

We speak with Crystal Watanabe on The Empowered Author Podcast about how to choose your beta reader.

How to Choose Your Beta Reader

Mastering Emotional Description to Write Better Books

Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, screenplays or poetry, the way you show your characters’ emotions can make or break your writing. But how do you show — and not tell — emotion in your writing? How do you master emotional description and write better books?

Mastering Emotional Description to Write Better Books

Do You Really Need Permission to Quote?

Authors, do you really need permission to use that quote? The answers—and the process—may not be what you think.

Do You Really Need Permission to Quote?

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