How to improve your descriptive writing

Descriptive writing in a novel is like the cream filling in a cake. Too much and it is overpowering, making the whole experience a little distracting for the consumer; too little and the result is boring and tasteless. The trick is finding that happy medium. But what makes good description? 1. Keep it basic. As […]

Improving your written dialogue

The ability to write good dialogue is, quite possibly, a writer’s most important tool in his arsenal. Good dialogue breathes life into your characters, fleshes out and diversifies a world, and can tell a story better than any number of descriptive sentences. Bad dialogue will leave characters paper thin and a plot uninteresting and flat. […]