writing advice

I've been working on revising my novel, and part of that has been making my plot stronger. Doing this led me to decide to choose a different moment to open the novel. I was wondering if anyone had any advice on how to choose the right moment? I'd be happy to share more about the series, world...

This has been a big bummer for me as I need something either perfect or near perfect and after a year of starting my story and writing over 500 full pages on google docs and reitterations I hae stumbled upon some I am deciding upon. Now I do not want anyone to tell me "You know best in the end...

As the title says. I seem to have this issue with my writing where I'll get to a point in the story that I just cannot figure out how to continue. I'll revisit it several times but nothing ever comes so the project just stays unfinished. So I was just curious if you guys ever have this issue...

I hope this is the right place to share this. I've been working on a blog for some time, and while many posts are directly related only to my novels, there are a lot of other posts that are tips for writers in general. For example, I just finished a three-blog series on writing villains; how to...

I want one of my scenes, a tet-a-tet between two characters, in which there is a huge power imbalance (one of them is a literal god), to feel as tense as possible. There should be a constant threat, a feeling that at any moment the conversation could turn sideways and the God could obliterate...

As shown here, I have started to create a story thread for my timeline where the Earth begins to spin the other way, exploring my existing lore of this world’s human and animal denizens that have changed over the years since my timeline’s point of divergence. I wanted to create this thread to...

I've found that my stories always end up feeling, at least to me, like they aren't going anywhere, or they're going crazy fast. What are some of the best practices you guys have found to write good pacing into your stories?

Hello everyone! 👋 I am currently writing the last chapter of the first draft (of my first book!) and I am completely stuck! The climax took place in the previous chapter, and now I sort of need to give a denouement, and I have absolutely no idea how to do so... There are quite a few things...

I'm writing my first fantasy YA which is a portal-based fantasy that takes the protagonist from our real world into the fantasy world. I'm wondering if anyone can help me decide on how much of the real world should I mention when the protagonist is in the fantasy world. More specifically will...

I'm finally getting out of what's probably the worst writer's block I've ever had: haven't written more than two paragraphs at a time for the past ten months, and most of them end up getting deleted anyway. Writing again has been great, but I've also had to deal with a problem I've been avoiding...