Developing Antagonism in Your Story

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer, editor, and book coach Erin Halden. Conflict is the key to a successful story. Without it, all you have is …

The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American …

By age three, your authoritarian should be able to blame juice spills on political enemies, such as a baby sibling or a weird uncle. If he or she (but likely …

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. Photograph by Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. I remember the taste of Mr. Bubble. I know the flavor of Milk-Bones. While …

Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash Today’s post is by editor and book coach Stephanie Mitchell. Is it too much to hope that your memoir can have a concrete …

“To have chosen such a life, as opposed to having been drugged or crimped or hoaxed aboard, was almost defiant in its sense of alienation,” Geoffrey Wolff writes in his …

Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to sit …

All photos courtesy of the author. The middle of nowhere, a hole-in-the-wall, flyover counties—even the U.S. Census Bureau defines rurality as a type of absence: “all areas not classified as …

After setting up shop in 11 new states, lender’s “strategic expansion into carefully identified markets nationwide” will include 18 additional states before next year’s spring homebuying season.