The 7 Best Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing Skills

This is a guest post by Jane Bolto. With a background in Marketing, Jane currently works as a Content Specialist at Nybizdb.com. She’s always willing to share her passion for new marketing strategies. Best Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing Skills...

Emotional Beats: Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, featuring Part 2 of the book: Body Parts. Hands and legs An easy way to...

Kathy Steinemann Shares 100 Ways To Shrug

Award-winning author Kathy Steinemann recently shared a great resource: over 100 ways to say “shrug.” As all of my first-draft characters seem to have a nervous tick (which mercifully disappears by the second draft), I appreciated this so much that I just...

Emotional Beats: Out Of The Mouth…

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, featuring Part 2 of the book: Body Parts. This post deals with what...

Emotional Beats: Do You Hear What I Hear?

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, featuring Part 2 of the book: Body Parts. As last week’s post was...

Pixar’s 15 Rules of Storytelling

On Twitter, Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats has compiled nuggets of narrative wisdom she’s received working for the animation studio over the years. Here are the ones that resonated with me. Pixar’s 15 Rules of Storytelling You admire a character for trying...