There have been times I thought, "I'll never make it as a writer. I should just give up."

In The Marshall Plan® novel writing system, there are two units of story action: the action section and the reaction section.

Personification is one of the more commonly used figures of speech. It is giving human attributes such as feelings, actions, thoughts and habits to non-human things (animals, objects or ideas).

There’s nothing more important to writing a successful novel than identifying the key problem of the story. This article shows how easy it is.

I like men. I like their rougher voices, muscular bodies, hairy chests, and all the other wonderful differences that make them unlike me.

In your opinion, what qualities should a hero always have?

If you've written for any length of time then you know characterization is important to shape your characters so that the readers either love them or hate them.

Have you always wanted to write a novel? Do you see the story in your head but find yourself uncapable of getting it all out on paper?

A novel can be extremely free form. Some are simply narratives about a fictional experience. Others are a collection of several stories that may or may not be intertwined.

Unlike screenplays, there are no budget constraints in a book. You can write, “The entire solar system exploded, planet at a time,” as easily as you can write, “a leaf fell from the tree.”