I was thinking about how often we refer to good dialogue as ‘sparkling’. For some reason, thirst perhaps, the word sparkling immediately made me think about my favorite beverage’champagne.

Plausible, complex characters are crucial to successful storytelling. You can develop them in several ways.

In one of my stories (set in the 1800's) I have a heroine who always says "hell's bells" when she is angry.

In the Name of Love...Finding the Right Names for Your Characters

What every writer must know and use to write truly compelling fiction. The elements of fiction are the basic principles.

Erotica is any literary or art form that arouses sexual desire or even love in an audience.

There has been a quiet debate among writing teachers for a long time about whether writing is a craft or an art. That is not a simple question to answer because writing...

If you already have a story idea, it is a simple matter to create a whole cast of characters that will grow out of your plot.

In fiction, character refers to a textual representation of a human being (or occasionally another creature).

E M Forster was a successful novelist and later an academic. Three of his novels, A Room with a View (1908), Howard’s End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) have been made into films.