How to Use Rising Action Effectively

How to Use Rising Action Effectively

Have you ever gotten stranded while writing your second act?  It happens to the best of us, even those of us who like to outline. Sometimes we get past the introduction, we write the scenes we’d envisioned, and then we hit this no-man’s-land in the runup to the...
How to Write in Third Person Properly

How to Write in Third Person Properly

Picking a point of view for your novel can be tricky. After all, point of view has an enormous impact on the reader’s experience and on the meaning of the text itself. The character we follow will inform a lot of what we see and what we understand as we move through...