Writing Techniques

Elizabeth Cartwright

Keeping Your Settings Vivid

If there’s one thing I notice in many books I edit, it’s that authors often have trouble making their settings memorable; by this, I...

Elizabeth Cartwright

Writing Fight Scenes

Fight scenes are hard to write! You have to get across the actions to your reader without boring them, being vague, but also detailed.

Elizabeth Cartwright

First, Second, Third: Points of View and Which is Best.

While there are three main personas, within those three are variations which hold their own advantages and disadvantages.

Elizabeth Cartwright

Hooking Your Reader From Page One

In today’s post, we’ll be exploring a variety of hook-worthy ways you can introduce your story to your reader.

Elizabeth Cartwright

Writing Tragic Character Deaths

Always keep in mind that deaths should be written for the characters, not characters for deaths.

Elizabeth Cartwright

Making Readers Laugh

Humour is highly subjective, and not something you can think too hard about.

Elizabeth Cartwright

Making the Most of Narrative Distance

Narrative distance is the distance between your narrator and the story. All narrators exist on the spectrum and can move along it.

Elizabeth Cartwright

Suddenly...! Writing Sudden Events

Writing sudden events can be tricky, but here is a list of methods that you can use to help convey immediacy in your scenes.

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