Archive of the Questions of The Month

 

 
 

To read a Q&A, click on the title.

 

Questions about Theme

Questions about Dialogue
 

Questions about omniscient POV, tricking yourself, and upping the conflict in the middle.

Questions about Dark Moments, Bad Guys, and Missing Quotation Marks

Questions about Scene Conflict and Helpful Websites

Questions about POV and Queries

Questions about Revision Magic and More on Commas

Questions about Dark Moments, Semi-colons, and Villains

Questions about Pacing, Sleuth Motivation, and Writing Out of Order

Questions about Repeated Actions, Non-stop Action, and Editor Interpretation

Questions about Agents and Commas

Questions about Emotions and Submissions

Questions about Point of View and Reinventing Old Stories

Questions about Historical Accuracy and Real People in Fiction

Questions about Conflict, Motivation, and Contracts

Questions about A-Plot, B-Plot, and Subplot

Point of View Question... and Can a Wimp Be a Hero?

What is the Dark Moment? and Where Do I Find Internal Conflict?

The Long-Awaited Italics Answer! Plus What is Women's Fiction? And An Exercise for the Sagging Middle. And some other Q&A too.

Article of the Month

Archive of Articles of the Month

If you like my answers, check out my interactive writing booklets and plotting guidebook:

The Story Within Writing Series

The Story Within Guidebook
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