According to one of my #WDC17 sessions, story CONFLICT is the engine that powers storytelling, from your inciting incident to your satisfying conclusion. Without conflict, characters can’t change or grow, and readers can’t experience emotion. What is …
If you’re anything like me, you have trouble with short form. According to Windy Lynn Harris, Writer’s Digest presenter and author of Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays, writing and selling short stories can be …
During her keynote speech at the Writer’s Digest Conference 2017, Lisa Scottoline really impressed me with her generosity, humor, and genuine humanness. Rather than be paid for her speech, she elected to buy 300 copies …
Here’s another post from my Writer’s Digest Conference series of session recaps for my Author Toolbox friends and lovely blog followers! I found it interesting to see plot twists in this more defined and mechanical sense. …
