One of the favorite writing terms that I picked up over the past year is “curiosity seeds.” Curiosity seeds are exactly like they sound like: little questions sprinkled into the
At my writers’ group last night, we reviewed two pieces that suffered from variations of the same flaw: trying to portray characters by having the narrator tell you all about
Dropping “suddenly” at the beginning of a sentence is a shorthand way of creating tension due to an unexpected change in circumstances. But it is not meaningful tension, and it