Rich with olive oil and garlic, homemade marinara sauce is meant to come together quickly, making it an everyday pleasure that’s well within reach.
Do you play every day? If not, consider the powerful boost play could give your emotional, mental, and physical well-being. Most notably, play can: Relieve stress when endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals, are released. As an added bonus, endorphins can reduce pa
If you want to send your readers into a 3AM reading frenzy, these ideas could help!
Whether you're writing a villain or a tragic hero, these steps will help make their downfall as tragic (and juicy) as possible.
This guide gives you some tips on dropping hints of romance without explicitly stating it, or having your characters shout it from the rooftops.
The ability to ask for and receive your students’ attention is crucial. It’s crucial because it saves precious learning time. It improves listening and performance. It allows you to give instruction anytime you need to and know that it will be heard and understood. ... Read more
This post shows the results of a question box from my Instagram story.
Sometimes dialogue sounds stiff, clunky, or unnatural. Try these tricks to make your dialogue sound more natural and less written.
A plot hole is a gap, contradiction or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the internal logic of the story. It's the kind of slip-up that makes switched-on readers say, "Wait, hang on a second!"
A magic system is a set of rules, however strict or loose, that govern magic in a fictional world.
A few tricks to stop your character from getting annoying.
If you're looking to add conflict to your story or throw a few problems your characters' way, I've got some ideas for you.
Struggling to figure out how your novel should end? Have a look at these 5 ways to end your novel and see if any of them resonate with your story.
Your story is always stronger when your character wants something. This is what propels them to make the decisions they make. If you're struggling to find a good motivation for your character, I've compiled 50 ideas you can use... If you want to learn how to use the character's backstory to formulate a motivation, we c
Ah yes, torturing readers, your favourite hobby!
Sometimes deleting a scene can be the best thing you can do for your project
Here's a quick reference for writing ballroom or dance scenes.
To give your characters some texture and make them feel more realistic, consider balancing their virtues with a sprinkle of toxicity.
A few tricks to stop your character from getting annoying.
I asked my Instagram followers,“What are some signs of amateurish writing, in your opinion?” Here are the results!
This guide aims to teach you how to write quotable dialogue in your novels and scripts.
This guide aims to teach you how to write quotable dialogue in your novels and scripts.
Add some extra texture to your characters.
I asked my Instagram followers,“What are some signs of amateurish writing, in your opinion?” Here are the results!
I know you guys like making your readers cry, so I thought I'd enable this pattern.
Whether your characters are getting into swordfights, falling out of high windows, or escaping dramatic fires, you may be wondering what sort of injuries they would realistically sustain. This guide aims to explain some common injuries in fiction, as well as how to write each one. I did my best to research this (check
Here's a quick reference for writing ballroom or dance scenes.
Sometimes they’re useful, but some dialogue tags are distracting or jarring. This post is a (hopefully) fun list of my least favourite.
Slow burn romances are stories in which the romance...burns slowly. Instead of instant kissing and love ballads, it's often more of a will-they-won't-they situation.
Rivals to lovers is a popular trope in the romance genre. It's like enemies to lovers, but typically less of a searing hatred.
