An author’s goal for any novel is to capture the reader’s attention with a memorable opening line that lures the reader in then keeps...

There are many wannabe authors out there with interesting ideas for a story, but they have no idea how to begin. Some will mull their...

Indie and self-published authors, this article is for you! Before we get to the nuts and bolts, let’s distinguish an indie author from a...

Clichés are overused, tired phrases that lack original thought. Some of them are as old as dirt (haha) and have often lost their novelty...

Purple prose is fancy-pants, over-the-top, flowery writing. Kind of like the sentence you just read. This type of writing defeats the...

The world is chock-full of words . By most accounts, the English language contains well over a million words when slang, technical terms,...