There’s currently a lot of discourse on social media about readers skipping descriptive passages and only reading dialogue. Some authors seem genuinely alarmed by this. Readers have been skipping chunks of text for decades. Long before BookTok, …
If you’ve spent any time studying screenwriting, you’ve probably heard some variation of this advice: “Your protagonist must be likable.” “The audience should want to be them.”That advice made a lot of sense in the era of Ferris Bueller. I still…
When I wrote my first novel, I barely thought about POV. Honestly, I hadn’t even planned on writing a novel in the first place. “Cecilia: The Last Croilar Tier” started as a ballet story that completely took on a life of its own. Images would po…