Finding Your Voice: Grief, Reinvention & the Courage to Start Over | The Art of Rising
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins The Art of Rising for a conversation less about the mechanics of ghostwriting and more about the human arc behind
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Creative Writing20 Thriller and Suspense Writing Exercises with Craft Mechanics
20 exercises targeting dread mechanics, pacing control, and the gap between what the reader knows and what the character suspects.
Fiction WritingMethod Acting on the Page: Channeling Voice & Emotion in a Ghostwritten Book | Robert Plank Show
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) returns to the Robert Plank Show for a conversation about the actual craft of capturing a person on the page. He explains
Book ReviewsThe Write-Brain Workbook Revised & Expanded
Hundreds of inventive writing exercises built to banish the blank page and build a daily creative habit through low-stakes, playful practice. A solid exercise book, though it builds fluency instead of craft, and its whole value depends on doing the…
Book ReviewsEnglish Grammar
A forty-eight-page primer on grammar basics, parts of speech, sentence construction, punctuation, with clear, simple explanations. Well pitched for someone intimidated by grammar, but too thin for anyone past the beginner stage. A fine first step most writers will quickly…
Book ReviewsScience Fiction Writers’ Phrase Book
A categorized bank of SF-flavored language across the subgenres, handy for breaking out of stock phrasing. The catch is sharper in SF: generic shared phrasing works against the original, world-specific vocabulary that distinguishes strong science fiction, and it teaches no…
Book ReviewsRomance, Emotion, and Erotica Writers’ Phrase Book
A combined phrase bank for romance, emotion, and erotica, modestly useful for brainstorming. The phrase-book problems sharpen here by genre: ready-made phrasing works against the fresh writing these cliche-prone genres most need, and toward the parody they are mocked for.…
Book ReviewsThe Writer’s Digest Sourcebook for Building Believable Characters
Six working novelists on characterization, paired with a practical questionnaire for the deep interrogation that produces fuller, more convincing people. A solid mix of inspiration and method, held back because a questionnaire informs but does not guarantee a living character,…
Book ProposalHow to Write a Book Proposal
Most nonfiction books are sold before they are written, on the strength of a proposal, and this is the standard agent's-eye guide to that document. It breaks down every component and teaches the key lesson: a proposal sells, it does…
Book ReviewsHow to Write & Sell Your First Novel
Craft instruction paired with a former agent's insider view of how publishing actually acquires and sells debut novels, which is the real draw. The craft ages reasonably; the business advice is significantly dated by the digital and self-publishing shift, so…
Book ReviewsThe Writer’s Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition
A guide to the front end of writing that goes past idea generation to the harder, more distinctive task: developing an idea into something with direction and purpose. It targets the real bottleneck, growing ideas into finished work instead of…
Book ReviewsThe Writer’s Digest Character Naming Sourcebook
Naming characters is a small craft, and this treats it seriously: a deep, searchable range of names spanning cultures, origins, and eras, every one carrying its meaning. The catch is how much of that the free online name resources now…