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Here’s a confession: most writers treat sentences like delivery trucks. Load them up with information, ship them out, move on to the next one. But sentences aren’t just vehicles for meaning—they’re emotional architects, building specific[…]

Your story feels off, but you can’t pinpoint why. Characters wander aimlessly. Events happen without consequence. Readers give up halfway through. Sound familiar? Before you scrap everything and start over, try this: your plot might[…]

Your brilliant story idea is bouncing around your brain like a caffeinated ping-pong ball. You know it’s good—maybe even great—but here’s the million-dollar question that keeps you up at night: Should this be a novel?[…]