How ending with a hook can keep readers engaged Stop me if this sounds familiar. You’re watching your favorite TV series, and even though you know…
What is the secret ingredient that makes a reader love a book—any book? Cliffhangers. Cliffhangers are where you leave a necessary piece of information unsaid at…
If there’s one thing that I’ve noticed in my own writing and through my critique group over the years it’s this: beginning a novel is hard.…
Have you ever read a story that was good, as in, it had no discernible flaws, but it just wasn’t that…interesting? For example, you liked the…
It’s the end – but not the end. The chapter is over, and you feel the need to mark this conclusion somehow, but you don’t know…