Creativity Hacker

One of the bad pieces of advice English teachers often give to their students is that old crap about paragraphs being a topic sentence, followed by 2 or 3 development…

There’s a structural issue I see quite frequently in fiction – especially indie fiction – that bothers me quite a bit, but in the few places I’ve ever seen it…

There are not very many hard and fast rules in creative writing. In fact, most people who talk about the rules fall into two camps: those who tell you that…

Last week, I analyzed the relative lengths of paragraphs across a representative selection of fantasy novels. (You can read the details here.) This week, I’m turning my attention to a…

My Blurb: After growing up in hiding, a letter with a peculiar talisman changes everything for a young baker’s girl named Duchess, and leads her into a dangerous world of…