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Trained fighter and author Carla Hoch discusses the importance of picking the right fighting style for your character and shares her method on how to determine what that fighting style should be.

Author Liz Trenow shares 5 tips on how to write from your own family history without ruffling any feathers.

Family relationships make for compelling stories with characters rich in nuance and personal history. Here, author Juliet Blackwell shares ways to explore the complexities of family in fiction.

Jeremy Scott demystifies the too-broad writerly advice of writing what you know by challenging us to focus in on the details.

What happens when you take your character’s greatest desire and turn it into an obsession? Here, author Caitlin Barasch discusses how to write a character driven by an obsession.

Debut novelist Kit Mayquist lays out 5 tips for writing a revenge story that slowly puts the pieces together for a final, satisfying climax.

When memory fails us, fiction takes its place. Here, author Joel Agee discusses how memoir and fiction can intersect to tell a story.

Conflict is a necessary ingredient to all storytelling. Here, author Norma Curtis discusses how to writer inner conflict in fiction, and what it can do to propel our story’s further.