Are you afraid of using the weather in your writing? If so, you’re not alone. After all, if not careful, weather description can be a minefield of clichés. The sunny, cloudless afternoon at the beach. The gloomy rainstorm at a funeral. Overdone setting and weather pairings can lie flat on the page. Then there’s the […] The post How to Use Weather to Create Mood, Not Clichés appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®.| WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®
Crafting characters that readers will connect to is every writer’s goal and dozens (hundreds?) of methods exist to achieve it: deep backstory planning, character profile sheets, questionnaires, etc. Regardless of the roadmap a writer uses, writing an authentic character boils down to one important action: intentionally drawing from the real world, and specifically, the human […] The post How to Show Your Character’s Repressed Emotions appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®.| WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®
Fiction writers have a lot of rules. “Show, don’t tell” sits near the top. But sometimes we follow those rules straight into a literary box canyon.| Speculative Fiction Writers Association
