The Story Polisher

The Story Polisher  is a collection of tips for improving your prose. Most posts highlight common problems that I've seen in ten years o...

I recently attended Life, The Universe, and Everything , a writing symposium in Provo, Utah that focuses on speculative fiction in partic...

Finding the most efficient order in which to tell a story can be a tricky process. Sometimes, a perfectly linear narrative storyline will s...

Last time we discussed the sixteen different tenses of the English language, all of which you’ve probably used before. Of course, some of ...

A few months ago we discussed tense in stories—how most stories are written in either past or present tense and how authors can accidental...

Like every other vocation, writing comes with a plethora of technical terms—everything from past perfect continuous tense to non-defining ...

This is part two of our discussion on mistakes that crop up when authors write lists; you can find part one here . In part one, we discusse...