Fiction Writing

When crafting a fiction novel, the inciting incident is the first plot point in the story. It is important because it is when the protagonist’s

From Tom and Jerry to Lady and the Tramp, children’s stories are brimming with animals that possess human qualities. They’re everywhere we go, embedding themselves

If you ask a group of five hundred people, “What is the greatest novel ever written?” you will be met with five hundred different answers.

Man vs. self conflict is a very compelling type of literary conflict. Why? Well, readers love reading about characters like themselves—flawed individuals with something they

Think weird and wonderful and you’ve basically summed up bizarro fiction in a nutshell. It can combine absurdism, humour, the grotesque, satire and surrealism. If

As its name suggests, flash fiction is short, compact and impactful in a way that is a bit akin to a lightning strike. In other

What makes fantasy so very bewitching? And which essential fantasy elements should you include in your writing if you want to craft a complex magical world? Let’s jump right in.

The number of ways to write a novel is limitless. In fact, it can be argued that there are no wrong ways to write a

When it all comes down to it, writers are artists, and storytelling is an artform. Writers use storytelling like a sculptor uses marble—they carve and shape a narrative arc into the story’s structure.