Susanne Dunlap
One author learns that putting boundaries—such as genre expectations—around creativity can actually stimulate it rather than inhibit it ...
Even if your plot is moving along nicely, a well-placed complication can jolt the action forward or sideways, or surprise ...
If you approach a book with a writer’s eye, even the most pleasurable, light reading can teach you something that ...
Shonda Rhimes’s Netflix series is a master class in amping up stakes and keeping viewers invested in the characters’ outcomes ...
Your characters’ movements and gestures in any given space must convey enough to paint the scene for readers without becoming ...
Authors should consider using AI for historical research—not as a replacement for primary sources, but as just another useful tool ...
Writers of both genres have to make decisions that somehow mold real people and events into a story with a ...