How to Use Juxtaposition in Your Writing

How to Use Juxtaposition in Your Writing

Writing is much more intentional than a lot of people might think. With literary devices, a writer can craft an extremely specific and intentional experience for their readers. If you want a sentence to have particular emphasis, a character’s traits to shine through...
How to Use Alliteration in Your Writing

How to Use Alliteration in Your Writing

Do you ever play with sound in your writing?  There are tons of literary devices and stylistic tricks to use in prose to spice it up. Many involve sound, like alliteration, assonance, and rhyme. Although commonly used in poetry, these devices can be applied to...
Writing Multiple Points of View

Writing Multiple Points of View

Have you ever started a novel with a huge cast of characters and felt like you needed to see all of their points of view? Were you quickly overwhelmed? Well, writing multiple points of view is an art that can aid in this desire. There are ways to manage multiple POV...
Exposition in Writing

Exposition in Writing

A writing element that is completely imperative, but extremely difficult to balance is exposition. Too much exposition at once, presented in the wrong way, will leave your reader bored and they’ll start skimming or abandon the book entirely. Too little exposition, and...
Types of editing: which do you need most?

Types of editing: which do you need most?

Have you finished writing it? Now you gotta edit it. Let’s talk about editing, the different types of edits and editors, and what kind of editing your story needs. What is editing? Editing is the process of refining a work of writing. There are many types of edits,...
53 Contemporary Writing Prompts

53 Contemporary Writing Prompts

There are many genres a story can fall under. One of the most common is contemporary fiction. A contemporary story happens in present-day, under usually realistic circumstances.  However, there are subcategories of contemporary. For example, a contemporary...