Common writing advice will tell you to let your writing breathe. But words don’t have lungs so what the heck does it even mean—& how does it help?

NOTE: I’m going to start with the section below on how to write with voice using third person point of view. Why? Because many writers think first person when they think voice, but that’s a misunderstanding I want to tackle right away. Later, there will be first person point of view, simply because it’s often […]

The OP, MC, and AU walk into a bar… I’ll be honest, which is notable enough on the internet. When I first wandered into the writing world over a decade ago (eesh, it really has been that long), I couldn’t even understand half the help articles and videos out there. The writer terminology was too […]

To be fair, you don’t have to avoid exposition 100% of the time. There are plenty of books where exposition is necessary. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. First thing’s first: What is exposition anyway? Exposition is explaining, basically. But what I think it does more than anything is something much more […]

This piece of writing advice lives everywhere. But kill your darlings doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means. Particularly if you don’t have “darlings” to kill off. It still applies in other ways and has a much broader meaning writers should understand. Where does the idea of kill your darlings come from? You probably […]