Zombies are dead. Actually, they’re undead, but many people consider this subgenre of horror fiction over. These tips for writing zombie fiction may help you follow your muse down the path of apocalyptic monster tales without boring the readers. First of all, nothing says you have to avoid certain genres or tropes just because a lot of other […]

Quality books need well-constructed main plots that include enough details and twists and turns to keep the reader engaged through the middle of the book. Unfortunately, I have come across far too many stories that seem to lose their way or their oomph after the inciting incident and before the climax. Other stories have a […]

Vanity publishers prey on unsuspecting and inexperienced writers who desperately want to ‘live the dream’ without doing a lot of the hard work of making that dream a reality. Mostly, they try to skip the hard work part due to simple ignorance (the nice kind where you just don’t know something yet, not the insulting […]

When somebody interested in fiction writing asks, “how long should a chapter be?” The usual answer is, “how long is a piece of string?” Once the person asking realizes that a piece of string can be any length, depending upon its need, they understand that there are no rules about chapter length in fiction writing. […]

The genre of fantasy fiction is essentially all about make believe worlds, make believe creatures, races, and people, and the things that happen to them. A lot of the enjoyment of fantasy fiction writing comes from creating the world that your characters will live in. You might think that the sky is the limit since […]

It doesn’t matter what genre you writing or whether you are working on a lengthy novel series or a short story. Writer’s block can happen. If you have read other stuff from me about the topic of writer’s block, you may know that I don’t believe in it as a definitive concept. In other words, I […]