How to Push Your Characters to Their Limits How far can a character go before she's "out of character"? Here's how to use the interplay of context, conflict and contradiction to your story's advantage. Click to continue.

10 Questions with Humor Writer Dan Zevin, Author of Dan Gets a Minivan As part of my 10 Questions Series, humorist Dan Zevin took a minute to talk with me and answer 10 fascinating questions about humor writing-covering the writing process, finding an agent, important advice for aspiring humor writers and more-that anyone who has ever considered writing humor should check out. Click to continue.

How to Write a Novel: 7 Tips Everyone Can Use Here are some basic tips that you can use (no matter what genre you are writing) to help improve your novel. Click to continue.