Action scenes are the best parts of many stories, but among the hardest to write. Learn how to write action scenes that thrill the reader while contributing something to your story beyond thrills.
Award-winning author Maxwell Alexander Drake takes you deep inside the violence, breaking it down piece by piece, & giving you some tricks you can use to create more realistic & exciting fights.
Authors often want to give a story a particular "feel," such as dread, wonder, romance, or weirdness. Learn how to create atmosphere through word choice, sentence construction, & other techniques.
Join Scott Lynch as he dissects some well-known action and sci-fi movies for the purpose of learning how to use cinematic idiom in written storytelling.
Discover methods for describing the setting & action through the characters' dialogue. Learn to convey plot, emotion, & intent with a few lines of conversation.
Learn from our distinguished panelists how to write compelling dialogue that draws readers in & keeps their attention. Added bonus feature: listen to them argue the pros & cons of dialogue tags!
Writing requires more than putting words on paper; you also have to edit & revise your work to make it as good as possible. Learn the best ways to edit your writing from some masters of the craft.
All authors want to write passages that tug at the heartstrings, evoke the sadness a character feels, or inspire the reader with wonder. Learn how to make your writing appeal to the reader's emotions.
Learn to write defining moments that change everything for your character, & discover how to seed the story with hooks that make the moment feel inevitable when it arrives.