Please, Don’t Do These In Your Novels

Writing a novel?  Here are five things we implore you to avoid:

Two Ways To Give Your Dialogue More Emotion

Dialogue can be so much richer when delivered with emotion.  Problem is, it’s not that easy to convey feeling using just words on a page. Here are two things writers have effectively employed to inject emotion into their dialogue.

What Content Goes Into Your Novel’s Opening

When writing a novel, your opening chapter is usually make or break.  Do it right and you’ll hook the reader right in.  Do it wrong and they’ll put the book down, never to be flipped through again.

Using Facts In Fiction Writing

Research is important in all types of writing — even when you’re making up stories.   Why can’t you just make up facts?  Simply put, you want your works of fiction to be as believable as possible and one of the ways to make that happen is to pepper it with real-world information.

Three Things To Avoid When Writing Dialogue

Writing dialogue for the characters in your story?  Good dialogue is as much about what you include as what you leave out.  Here are three things you should avoid whenever possible:


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