Having a strong grasp of your character’s internal conflict can help you make big-picture decisions when you’re revising your story. Read more about how you can use this developmental editing technique to focus your changes.

If you want to start writing but don’t know where or how to begin, here is a list of ideas you can use to get started right here and now.

Whether you've written one hundred stories or one haiku, this list will give you tools designed to help you push past opening line jitters and page fright. Each book needs to be written its own way, which means you might need to try something new to start your new manuscript.