I’m not talking about your characters and their constant gibber-jabbering in your head. I’m talking about that voice that belittles you, doubts you, makes you second guess yourself. The one that tells you that you’re not a good writer, that you will never publish your...

There are many components to a story. Resolution plays a major part, although it may not seem so important at first glance. No, it isn’t the major battle scene, nor is it the long awaited confrontation. It’s what happens afterwards. And I would argue that it is just as...

When I started thinking about tone the first thing that popped into my head was Stephen King, because he is a master at creating that creepy, unsettling feeling horror writers spend years and years trying to duplicate. I wondered, what is it about his writing that conv...

 Kristen Britain has been contributing to the fantasy genre for over twenty years with her writing. Green Rider, the first of her series, was one of the first fantasy novels I ever picked up after reading through The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I was not disapp...