Imagine you're a firefighter that rushes to an emergency house fire. The burning flames and suffocating smoke of the house fire is the...

One of my all-time favorite board games to play is Clue . You know, the one with the colorful suspects where players have to identify the...

When we think about the writing process, it's quite similar to an assembly factory or the water cycle many of us learned in science class...

When we think about tropes, the first two genres that come to mind are oftentimes fantasy or romance. However, Christian fiction also has...

Christian fiction is a main, broad category of Christian books that incorporates a Christ worldview, emphasizing themes of faith,...

Before writers write about their cast of characters, it can be extremely helpful to complete character interviews and backstories. Both...

Foreshadowing is a common literary device that most seasoned writers have heard of before. It's when writers give hints of future events that are to come or will happen later within a story.

As I mentioned in my previous blogpost, there's three main different types of irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic. All three of these types of irony can be used creatively within writing to either add clever wit, create suspense, or add a little humor in stories.

Irony is a literary device that can add wit and intrigue in one's writing, but it isn't commonly used as much as metaphors or similes....

Revision or revising is a process that's similar to recycling trash. Let's face it, sometimes our first drafts, second drafts, or even...

Plotting and outlining together are the third stage of writing. These two forms of writing are sometimes used interchangeably; but...

Thematic significance is the moral, statement, or universal truth an author is conveying to their readers through their short stories,...

Theme is many times associated with the message of stories based on the terminology we're familiar with from writing essay and research...

One of the great pleasures of writing a book series is the different ways that writers can do them.

Editing is one of the least favorite parts of the book creation process for writers because it takes focus, critical thinking,...

Within fiction there are three types of story worlds that writers use in their novels or books.

Worldbuilding is the creation of a story, imaginary, or physical world in which your characters live and have their being.

Writing a standalone novel is one thing, but completing a whole book series is another and much more challenging. On the flip side,...

Character arcs are important to show the internal, mental, emotional, and or spiritual development of characters in a story.

Character development is the internal and external transformation characters go through during and after the course of the story.