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Cutting-Edge Tips to Upgrade Your Fiction
Read Time: 1 minuteWhen I first started writing stories, I dreamed of time traveling five years into the future. I imagined myself with...
4 Business Insights I Wish I Knew When I First Started Writing
Read Time: 4 minutesTaking shortcuts to make progress can hold you back. I know firsthand. For instance, this past week I drowned in...
8 Plot Diagrams that Illustrate the Storytelling Power of Dramatic Structure
Read Time: Grab a snack (16 min)Mention terms such as plot diagrams or structure to some writers, and they cringe. Such folks tend to...
12 Ways To Get Out of Your Own Way in 2023
Read Time: 3 minutes The New Year can bring in different ways to get in your own way. I’m here to make sure that doesn’t happen to you....
11 Fearless Predictions for the World of Storytelling in 2023
Read Time: 3 minutesOn New Year’s Eve when the clock strikes midnight, a new world will be born. It's a world filled with future...
A Storyteller’s Carol
Read Time: 3 minutesDo you remember the moment you realized you were destined to be a storyteller? I’ve read about people knowing at an...
7 Easy Questions to Edit Scenes Like a Pro
Read Time: 2 minutesLast month, about 400,000 people were estimated to have participated in National Novel Writing Month. Among them,...
Time Management for Fiction Writers – 10 Tips & Tricks to Help You Write More Words Every Day
Read Time: 4 minutesIf you're a fiction writer, you know the drill: You have to invest a lot of time to get good at writing stories...
5 Professional Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start Writing Fiction
Read Time: 3 minutesStart writing fiction today after you answer these questions of great importance! Because you don't need to be a...
6 Months of Novel Writing Tips
Read Time: 1 minute Greetings storyteller. Wow. Six months of The Saturday Storyteller just happened. And this week it’s Thanksgiving in...
How to Turn Writer’s Block into Building Blocks
Read Time: 2 minutes Your favorite writing coach lied to you. They said you needed to honor a strict schedule, get fresh air, or find...
7 Simple Ways to Validate Story Ideas for a Novel
Read Time: 3 minutesYou've had story ideas brewing in your mind for weeks, but are they worthy of the competition? How can you tell if...
How to Use Everyday Life to Develop Characters that Fans Won’t Forget
Read Time: 3 minutesI despise other people’s hands in my mouth. Yet I’ve granted access to countless fingers. I’ve even allowed people to...
The One Lie You Must Stop Telling Yourself Today
Read Time: 2 minutes“You shouldn’t have said the truth.” That’s what my wife said after I shared this story with her… The Truth about...