Writing Tips
Amy Delcambre
What Being Unprepared to Run a Marathon Taught ...

You should want to sing “the end” from the rooftops, not vomit in the sand between the back of a portaloo and someone’s million-dollar Cape Cod-style McMansion.

What Being Unprepared to Run a Marathon Taught Me about Novel Writing
Editing Tips, True Stories
Amy Delcambre
My $7,791 Business Mistake

· Every contract is worth walking away from. Any job you take is keeping you from another job opportunity.

My $7,791 Business Mistake
Writing Tips
Amy Delcambre
5 Terrible Excuses You’re Not Writing Your ...

Good reasons for not writing are terrible excuses. Stop making excuses and start planning and prioritizing, so you can start writing (for real).

5 Terrible Excuses You’re Not Writing Your Story (And How to End the Cycle)
Writing Tips
Amy Delcambre
How to Show Not Tell in Writing

The why factor tells reader things about your characters. Readers learn who people, and they connect more deeply with the story, such as in “The Gift of the Magi” when writers show instead of tell.

How to Show Not Tell in Writing
Writing Memoir
Amy Delcambre
How to Write about Trauma

When you write about things that have happened to you (such as in memoir), you revisit the emotions that you had when those events transpired.

How to Write about Trauma

Book Review & Analysis

,

How Internal Conflict Drives Stories

,
How Internal Conflict Drives Stories

Internal conflict is the force that motivates a character’s actions. Read on to understand how to identify and to use internal conflict to write better stories.

,

Why You Still Need a Clear Protagonist with Multiple Narrators

,
Why You Still Need a Clear Protagonist with Multiple Narrators

When used properly, multiple narrators are very effective in storytelling; however, it is still important that authors know whose story they’re telling (i.e., have a clear protagonist).

What Makes The Husband's Secret So Good?

What Makes The Husband's Secret So Good?

In a literary analysis of Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret, we find plot and a compelling underlying question drive the book to be the success that it is

,

Anatomy of a Good Book Cover

,
Anatomy of a Good Book Cover

Why does a good book cover matter? The cover is an important marketing tool for your book, which is why you should leave book cover design to the pros.

,

How to Know if You Should Write a Series

,
How to Know if You Should Write a Series

Knowing if you should write a series comes down to having enough story ideas, to building a strong enough character arc, and to establishing a big enough audience.

,

The Importance of Place in Your Story: An Analysis of Setting in JP Delaney’s The Girl Before

,
The Importance of Place in Your Story: An Analysis of Setting in JP Delaney’s The Girl Before

Setting is as important a part of your story as the characters. Setting reveals tone, theme, and character, and can maximize the climax of your novel’s plot.

Creating Killer Characters: An Analysis of Lily Kintner in Peter Swanson’s The Kind Worth Killing

Creating Killer Characters: An Analysis of Lily Kintner in Peter Swanson’s The Kind Worth Killing

By analyzing Peter Swanson's sociopathic protagonist Lily Kintner, writers gain insight on how to create a "killer" character readers can't get enough of.