Fiction Writing Tips & Toolkit

Check out my latest Medium.com posts, where I share my best writing tips to improve your works of fiction:

Check out my writing tips for aspiring authors looking to deepen their craft.

From Rejections to a Book Deal: Here’s What Made the Difference

My journey to getting SIGNED with a publisher (emotional highs & lows) + tips to help new authors land a literary agent and book deal!

Regain your passion for writing without the pressure of daily numerical goals.

How to Write 2 Books in 2 Years Without Writing Quotas

Seriously folks, Let’s Drop those Stress-inducing Targets.

Image: Designed by Magnific

Daily — or even weekly — writing quotas seem efficient, productive, and appeal to our results-oriented minds. (Believe me, as someone who loves frameworks and a healthy sense of control, I know how incredibly appealing this can be.) …

Here are the top fiction-writing mistakes I made, and how you can avoid them.

Mistakes that Nearly Doomed my First 2 Book Ideas

Here’s how I fixed them and turned hidden gems into finished novels.

Have you ever spent months (or, let’s be honest, even years) pouring your heart and soul into a writing project, only to be plagued by a persistent worry that it’s still not ‘quite right’? For some reason, the structure doesn’t seem strong enough. …

Your favorite movie heroes and heroines may have a very specific MBTI personality type.  Find out why they intrigue you.

16 MBTI Types to Deepen Your Protagonist

So many people have found the MBTI an insightful tool for self-understanding — so, what if we could unleash its power to write better fictional characters too?

Perhaps you’re a novelist, eager to deepen your heroine’s characterization — and more accurately perceive your story’s conflict and emotion through her eyes. Or maybe you’re an avid reader or film/streaming viewer, curious about your favorite lead’s approach to life and to problems. Either way, this may be just the article for you. …

Future Article

Coming shortly…

Future Article

Coming shortly…