Telling character backstory is sometimes necessary to show why your character has a specific motivation or mindset. Yet it’s important to learn how to write backstory that will not bog your novel down in constant harking back to prior events that occurred before the present time of your narrative. Here are some tips that I hope...

Many beginner writers often don’t know how to motivate themselves to write a book. ‘My writing sucks’ is easy to tell yourself, but this is a story that all too often ends in writer’s block. I have prepared a set of tips for young writers to follow. I hope they will help you stay motivated while writing your first great book.

Writing the middle of a novel has its own unique challenges. You need to develop your story further after your engrossing start and set in place the path to the end. The curse of the ‘sagging middle’ can’t take hold. Here are some tips for writing a great middle for your story. They will definitely help even if you are working on a short story or...