By Jay Stringer It's been too long since my last confession.  I've gone through a lot of changes in the last couple of years, some c...

By Russel D McLean I’ve just finished judging a short story competition in aid of the brilliant Million for a Morgue charity. I’m sure I’ve...

By Russel D McLean I’m not sure how happy I am talking about this weeks subject. Tone. I really don’t know what to say about it. I don’t hav...

By Jay Stringer After the news cycle we've had in the writing community of the past few weeks, writing about tone seems to fit. Tone and...

By Jay Stringer Setting is a loaded concept. Setting can be a place, it can be a time, it can be the thing that cement does after you'...

By Jay Stringer Character week, huh? I'll have me some of that. When it comes to craft, many writers talk of character like some magic,...

By Jay Stringer I've admitted this before, I think, but I wrote my first book by accident. I'd always intended to write a novel some...

by: Joelle Charbonneau The more I write, the better I get at the craft of writing. That makes sense, right? Practice makes perfect. Howev...

by: Joelle Charbonneau Why is it wrong to say that everyone shouldn’t be published? Yeah – that question is already sending some of you to y...